Mao II (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780140152746)

Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award

From the author of White Noise (winner of the National Book Award) and The Silence, a profound novel about art, terror, masses, and the individual from "one of the most intelligent, grimly funny voices to comment on life in present-day America" (The New York Times)

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. Mao II is the work of an ingenious writer at the height of his powers.

Author: Don Delillo
ISBN-10: 0140152741
ISBN-13: 9780140152746
Publisher: Penguin Books
Language: English
Published: 05/01/1992
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.47lbs
Size: 7.78h x 5.13w x 0.72d
Award: PEN/Faulkner Award - Winner

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 05/11/1992