by John Updike · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780141027845
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«Terrorist» is the novel by John Updike, published by Penguin in paperback (320 pages, in English).
The action takes place in contemporary New Jersey and follows a young man who moves from radicalism to fundamentalism and terrorism, with a decaying urban landscape and an increasingly fragmented community. Updike explores the logic of the fundamentalist terrorist and considers how to counter it through words and deeds.
The original edition dates from 2007.
Recommended for readers of literary fiction interested in American society after 9/11 and in religious fanaticism.
John Hoyer Updike was an American novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic, and literary critic. One of only four writers to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once, Updike published more than twenty novels, more than a dozen short-story collections, as well as poetry, art and literary criticism and children's books during his career.
