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John Updike aims to shape the pastiche portrait of the homegrown terrorist (a la Richard Reid, John Walker, even Timothy McVeigh) into something psychologically rich and artistically profound. A lesser writer would have stumbled into threadbare stereotype, but Updike is up to the task, and his novel about Ahmad Mulloy Ashmawy, an angry 18-year-old who falls under the sway of a fundamental Islamic leader, simultaneously captures the seething rage of the alienated youth, and provides a vivid window into a world of shame, hate, and outlandish schemes that could, eventually, come to catastrophic fruition.

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ISBN-13: 978-1585478606
Author: John Updike
Genre: Current Events
Publisher: Center Point Pub
Date Published: December 01, 2006

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review by BaronSamedi3. April 07, 2007

posted in Cafe Libri: Reviewing Books & More

A Review of Terrorist by a Muslim Apostate

Pros: A look into a Muslim mind which is scarily close to real Cons: So many wasted characters and sideplots The Bottom Line: It's captivating and as close as you can get to seeing a Muslim's mind without actually becoming a Muslim Chances are that unless I’ve missed something somewhere, John Updike was never a Muslim. That fact makes his achievement with Terrorist very remarkable. Terrorist is spent almost entirely within … more

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