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Mao II. Mao II, published in 1991, is Don DeLillo 's tenth novel. The book tells the story of a novelist, struggling to finish a novel, who travels to Lebanon to assist a writer being held hostage. The title is derived from a series of Andy Warhol silkscreen prints depicting Mao Zedong. DeLillo dedicated the book to his friend Gordon Lish.
- 256 (hardback first edition)
- Don DeLillo
- 20 June 1991
- Scribner
May 1, 1992 · 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. Mao II is the work of an ingenious writer at the height of his powers. Read more.
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- Penguin Books
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- Don DeLillo
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Jan 1, 2001 · DeLillo won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Mao II, about terrorism and the media's scrutiny of writers' private lives, and the William Dean Howells Medal for Underworld, a historical novel that ranges in time from the dawn of the Cold War to the birth of the Internet. He was awarded the 1999 Jerusalem Prize, the 2010 PEN/Saul Bellow Award for ...
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Aug 9, 2016 · Mao II. Don DeLillo. Pan Macmillan UK, Aug 9, 2016 - Fiction - 256 pages. "Disturbing, provocative and darkly comic, Mao II reads, at once, as a sociological meditation on the perils of contemporary society, and as a kind of new-wave thriller" Michiko Kakutani, New York Times. Bill Gray, a famous, reclusive novelist, emerges from his isolation ...
Winner of the PEN/Faulkner AwardFrom 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 ...
Jun 20, 1991 · Mao II. Hardcover – June 20, 1991. by Don DeLillo (Author) 4.1 338 ratings. See all formats and editions. Reclusive writer Bill Gray escapes his failed novel into a world of political violence and terror, in a story that journeys from New York, to London, Athens, and ultimately, the bombed-out city of Beirut.
- Don DeLillo
May 1, 1992 · Mao II: A Novel. Mao II. : 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 ...
