Mao II -- Don Delillo

<b><b>Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award</b> <p/>From the author of <i>White Noise </i>(winner of the National Book Award) and <i>The Silence</i>, 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 (<i>The New York Times</i>)</b> <p/>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. <p/>An extraordinary novel from Don DeLillo about words and images, novelists and terrorists, the mass mind and the arch-individualist, <i>Mao II</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. <i>Mao II</i> is the work of an ingenious writer at the height of his powers.<br><br><b>Author:</b> Don Delillo<br><b>Publisher:</b> Penguin Books<br><b>Published:</b> 05/01/1992<br><b>Pages:</b> 256<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.47lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 7.78h x 5.13w x 0.72d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780140152746<br><b>Age Range:</b> 18-UP<br><b>Award:</b> PEN/Faulkner Award - Winner<br><br><b>Review Citation(s): </b><br