# The Coup

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- Book: [The Coup](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-updike/the-coup) ([The Coup.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-updike/the-coup.md))
- Authors: [John Updike](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-updike)
- Publisher: random_house_trade_paperbacks
- ISBN: 978-08-1298-297-8
- Pages: 320
- Published: 2012-03-13
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

A novel that charts the violent events in an imaginary African nation, as told by the colonel and leader of the country—from one of the most gifted American writers of the twentieth century and the...