000			01605n m a2200193 a 4500
001			063102
005			20231009193136.0
008			090608t2006----nyu-----------000-u-eng-u
020			_a9780307264657
082	0		_aFIC UPD
100	1		_aUpdike, John _d(1932-2009)
245	1	0	_aTerrorist _c/ John Updike
260			_aNew York _b: Alfred A. Knopf _c, c2006.
300			_a310 p. _c; 22 cm.
520			_aThe ever-surprising John Updike's twenty-second novel is a brilliant contemporary fiction that will surely be counted as one of his most powerful. It tells of eighteen-year-old Ahmad Ashmawy Mulloy and his devotion to Allah and the words of the Holy Qur'an, as expounded to him by a local mosque's imam. The son of an Irish-American mother and an Egyptian father who disappeared when he was three, Ahmad turned to Islam at the age of eleven. He feels his faith threatened by the materialistic, hedonistic society he sees around him in the slumping factory town of New Prospect, in northern New Jersey. Neither the world-weary, depressed guidance counselor at Central High School, Jack Levy, nor Ahmad's mischievously seductive black classmate, Joryleen Grant, succeeds in diverting the boy from what his religion calls the Straight Path. When he finds employment in a furniture store owned by a family of recently immigrated Lebanese, the threads of a plot gather around him, with reverberations that rouse the Department of Homeland Security. But to quote the Qur'an:Of those who plot, God is the best.
650			_aEgyptian Americans _v--Fiction
650		4	_aTerrorists _x--Fiction
942			_cMO
999			_c261918 _d261918