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Mao II by Don Delillo
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 I 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 I is the work of an ingenious writer at the height of his powers.
Don DeLillo published his first short story when he was twenty-three years old. He has since written twelve novels, including White Noise (1985) which won the National Book Award. It was followed by Libra (1988), his novel about the assassination of President Kennedy, and by Mao II, which won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.
In 1997, he published the bestselling Underworld, and in 1999 he was awarded the Jerusalem Prize, given to a writer whose work expresses the theme of the freedom of the individual in society; he was the first American author to receive it. He is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780140152746 |
| ISBN 10 | 0140152741 |
| Title | Mao II |
| Author | Don Delillo |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Year published | 1992-05-01 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Prizes | Winner of PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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