Mao II - Picador Collection
Mao II - Picador Collection
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Published:
24 November, 2022
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Description
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.
Part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the best of modern literature.
Prizes
Short-listed for Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1992 (UK)
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9781529092110 |
| ISBN10 | 1529092116 |
| Number Of Pages | 256 |
| Item Weight | 186 g |
| Product Dimensions | 129 x 197 x 17 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Pan Macmillan |
| Format | paperback |
Media Reviews
A beauty. . . Delillo takes us on a breathtaking journey, beyond the official versions of our daily history, behind all easy assumptions about who we're supposed to be, with a vision as bold and a voice as eloquent and morally focused as any in American writing -- Thomas Pynchon
A work of fiction not merely astonishingly fitting for our times, but rich and rewarding for anyone wishing to understand them * Sunday Times *
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Author's Bio
Don DeLillo is the author of many bestselling novels, including Point Omega, Falling Man, White Noise,Libra, and Zero K, and has won many honours in America and abroad, including the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the Jerusalem Prize for his complete body of work and the William Dean Howells Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters for his novel Underworld. In 2010, he received the PEN/Saul Bellow Award. He has also written several plays.