| Terrorist Contributor(s): Updike, John (Author) |
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ISBN: 0345493915 ISBN-13: 9780345493910 Publisher: Random House Group OUR PRICE: $15.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2007 Annotation: Born of an Irish-American mother and an Egyptian father long since disappeared, 18-year-old Ahmad craves spiritual nurture and is drawn into an insidious plot. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Religious - General - Fiction | Thrillers - Crime |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.5" W x 8.1" (0.60 lbs) 320 pages |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 107069 Reading Level: 7.7 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 17.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The terrorist of John Updike's title is eighteen-year-old Ahmad Ashmawy Mulloy, the son of an Irish American mother and an Egyptian father who disappeared when he was three. Devoted to Allah and to the Qur'an as expounded by the imam of his neighborhood mosque, Ahmad feels his faith threatened by the materialistic, hedonistic society he sees around him in the slumping New Jersey factory town of New Prospect. Neither Jack Levy, his life-weary guidance counselor at Central High, nor Joryleen Grant, his seductive black classmate, succeeds in diverting Ahmad from what the Qur'an calls the Straight Path. Now driving a truck for a local Lebanese furniture store--a job arranged through his imam--Ahmad thinks he has discovered God's purpose for him. But to quote the Qur'an: Of those who plot, God is the best. |