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Plotting Terror : Novelists and Terrorists in Contemporary Fiction, Paperback by Scanlan, Margaret, ISBN 0813920353, ISBN-13 9780813920351, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Scanlan (English, Indiana University South Bend) considers several novels about terrorists and considers what they say about the role of the writer in modern society and politics. She examines the figure of the writer as a rival or a mirror of the terrorist, tracing the development of this relationship from its Romantic origins to the age of the Unabomber. The works of DeLillo, Rushdie, McNamee, Mary McCarthy, Lessing, Coetzee, Dnrrenmatt, Roth, Robert Stone, Volodine, and Conrad are specifically considered. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR ()

Plotting Terror : Novelists and Terrorists in Contemporary Fiction, Paperback by Scanlan, Margaret, ISBN 0813920353, ISBN-13 9780813920351, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Scanlan (English, Indiana University South Bend) considers several novels about terrorists and considers what they say about the role of the writer in modern society and politics. She examines the figure of the writer as a rival or a mirror of the terrorist, tracing the development of this relationship from its Romantic origins to the age of the Unabomber. The works of DeLillo, Rushdie, McNamee, Mary McCarthy, Lessing, Coetzee, Dnrrenmatt, Roth, Robert Stone, Volodine, and Conrad are specifically considered. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR ()