Mao II
by Don DeLillo
2016 · Paperback
ISBN 9781509837847
Book details
- Published
- 2016
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- ISBN-13
- 9781509837847
- ISBN-10
- 1509837841
- Pages
- 241
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
About this book
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 in Beirut. As Bill enters the world of political violence, a nightscape of Sentex 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-makes and gunmen.
Browse by subject