Mao II
Author(s): Don DeLillo
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.
General Information
- :
- : Pan Macmillan
- : Picador
- : 0.192
- : 19 May 2016
- : 197mm X 130mm X 16mm
- : United Kingdom
- : 09 August 2016
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Don DeLillo
- : Main Market Ed.
- : English
- : 256
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'One of the most intelligent, grimly funny voices to comment on life in present-day America' New York Times