Mao II (Picador Collection, 30)
Editorial PAN MACMILLAN
Mainland Spain
- Publisher PAN MACMILLAN
- ISBN13 9781529092110
- ISBN10 1529092116
- Type BOOK
- Pages 256
- Published 2022
- Language English
- Bookbinding Paperback
Subjects
English LiteratureMao II (Picador Collection, 30)
Editorial PAN MACMILLAN
Mainland Spain
Book details
Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award, Mao II is the work of an ingenious writer at the height of his powers.
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.