The Coup by John Updike

The Coup by John Updike

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.

From the Trade Paperback edition.

In 1954, John Updike graduated from Harvard College and spent a year at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art in Oxford, England. He was a member of The New Yorker's staff from 1955 until 1957. He has won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for his works. Updike earned the Rea Prize for Short Fiction in 2006, and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for his Early Tales (1953-1975). In January 2009, he passed away.

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ISBN 13	9780394502687
ISBN 10	039450268X
Title	The Coup
Author	John Updike
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Alfred A. Knopf
Year published	1978-11-12
Number of pages	320
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