The Coup

by Updike, John
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ISBN: 9780812982978
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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.
  • Format: TradePaperback
  • Author: Updike, John
  • ISBN: 9780812982978
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 8.34 x 0.72
  • Number Of Pages: 305
  • Publication Year: 2012

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