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The Coup describes violent events in the imaginary African nation of Kush, a large, landlocked, drought-ridden, sub-Saharan country led by Colonel Hakim F�lix Ellello�. ("A leader," writes Colonel Ellello�, "is one who, out of madness or goodness, takes upon himself the woe of a people. There are few men so foolish.") Colonel Ellello� has four wives, a silver Mercedes, and a fanatic aversion-cultural, ideological, and personal-to the United States. But the U.S. keeps creeping into Kush, and the repercussions of this incursion constitute the events of the novel. Colonel Ellello� tells his own story-always elegantly, and often in the third person-from an undisclosed location in the South of France.
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Label: Fawcett Manufacturer: Fawcett Publication Date: 1980-03-12 Publisher: Fawcett Release Date: 1980-03-12 Studio: Fawcett |