Cannibals and Missionaries

Cannibals and Missionaries
First edition
AuthorMary McCarthy
LanguageEnglish
GenreThriller
Published1979
PublisherWeidenfeld & Nicolson
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint
ISBN0297777033

Cannibals and Missionaries is a 1979 thriller novel by Mary McCarthy which examines the "psychology of terrorism."[1][2] The novel focuses on the action created when a Dutch/Arab terrorists hijack an Air France plane full of Americans on a flight towards Iran.[1][3]

Reception

Diane Cole in The Georgia Review had mixed opinions about the novel. She described the novel as a "thriller in which the thrills arise not from the threat of violence or the promise of tawdry sex, but with the pleasure taken in the author's intellect and sense of language."[4] Cole describes the depictions of the captives as more extensive than the terrorists, which leads to a depiction of the terrorists and their tactics as "not convincing".[4]

Kirkus Reviews described the novel in largely negative light, writing that "an odd, slow, rather stiff exercise that nonetheless keeps delivering little rewards (repartee, details, ideas), perhaps enough of them to divert readers with a McCarthy-ish leaning toward ironic meditation, socio-political skepticism, and elegant misanthropy."[3]

References

  1. ^ a b "Cannibals and Missionaries | novel by McCarthy". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2017-05-21.
  2. ^ "A Novel of Terrorism". www.nytimes.com. Retrieved 2017-05-21.
  3. ^ a b CANNIBALS AND MISSIONARIES by Mary McCarthy. Kirkus Reviews. October 15, 1979.
  4. ^ a b Cole, Diane (1980). "Review of Cannibals and Missionaries". The Georgia Review. 34 (1): 228–231. JSTOR 41397931.

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