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Mao II

By Don DeLillo

Mao II Contemporary literature

Mao II

By Don DeLillo

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'One of the most intelligent, grimly funny voices to comment on life in present-day America' 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 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. '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
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
256
Release Date:
2016-05-19
Publication Date:
2021-12-31
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1509837841
ISBN13:
9781509837847
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Minimum Reading Age:
18
Weight:
187 g
Height:
131 cm
Width:
196 cm
Thickness:
25 cm
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