| The Coup Contributor(s): Updike, John (Author) |
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ISBN: 0812982975 ISBN-13: 9780812982978 Publisher: Random House Trade OUR PRICE: $14.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Political - Fiction | Psychological |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2012372646 |
| Physical Information: 0.72" H x 5.48" W x 8.34" (0.59 lbs) 320 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Coup describes violent events in the imaginary African nation of Kush, a large, landlocked, drought-ridden, sub-Saharan country led by Colonel Hakim F lix Ellello . ("A leader," writes Colonel Ellello , "is one who, out of madness or goodness, takes upon himself the woe of a people. There are few men so foolish.") Colonel Ellello has four wives, a silver Mercedes, and a fanatic aversion--cultural, ideological, and personal--to the United States. But the U.S. keeps creeping into Kush, and the repercussions of this incursion constitute the events of the novel. Colonel Ellello tells his own story--always elegantly, and often in the third person--from an undisclosed location in the South of France. |