The Coup - US Edition Doubleday blood-thirsty Brigands and enough perils

blood-thirsty Brigands and enough perils to make him wonder why he ever decided to leave home

The prizewinning and bestselling author of The Outcast returns with an emotionally powerful portrait of a marriage in extremis and a world-view in question

The Loop charts her struggle

believing in nothing and caring not at all about politics

and their baby daughters join him

The Coup - US Edition Doubleday blood-thirsty Brigands and enough perilsJohn Updike's new novel describes violent events in the imaginary African nation of Kush a large, landlocked, drought ridden, sub Saharan country led by Colonel Hakim Flix Ellello. Colonel Ellello has four wives, a silver Mercedes, and a fanatic aversioncultural, ideological, and personalto the United States. But the U. S. keeps creeping into Kush, and the repercussions of this incursion constitute the events of the novel. The time of the novel is