Mao II - Softcover

DeLillo, Don

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1509837841 ISBN 13: 9781509837847

Publisher: Picador, 2016

Synopsis

Bill Gray, a famous, reclusive novelist, emerges from his isolation when he becomes the key figure in an event staged to force the release of a poet hostage in Beirut. As Bill enters the world of political violence, a nightscape of Semtex explosives and hostages locked in basement rooms, Bill's dangerous passage leaves two people stranded: his brilliant, fixated assistant, Scott, and the strange young woman who is Scott's lover - and Bill's.

An extraordinary novel from Don DeLillo about words and images, novelists and terrorists, the mass mind and the arch-individualist, Mao II explores a world in which the novelist's power to influence the inner life of a culture now belongs to bomb-makers and gunmen. Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award, Mao II is the work of an ingenious writer at the height of his powers.

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Review:

A beauty. . . Delillo takes us on a breathtaking journey, beyond the official versions of our daily history, behind all easy assumptions about who we're supposed to be, with a vision as bold and a voice as eloquent and morally focused as any in American writing (Thomas Pynchon)

A work of fiction not merely astonishingly fitting for our times, but rich and rewarding for anyone wishing to understand them (Sunday Times)

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'One of the most intelligent, grimly funny voices to comment on life in present-day America' New York Times

About this edition

• Publisher: Picador
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1509837841
• ISBN 13: 9781509837847
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256