Mao II
DON DELILLO
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Mao II by Don DeLillo
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47 reviews (1991) (256p)
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Finalist
PEN/Faulkner Award Winner
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| Book Description |
| Escaping the failed novel he has been working on for years, reclusive writer Bill Gray enters the world of political violence, terrorists, revolutionaries, and modern-day chaos. By the author of Libra. Reprint. NYT. |
| Amazon.com Review |
| Don DeLillo's follow-up to Libra, his brilliant fictionalization of the Kennedy assassination, Mao II is a series of elusive set-pieces built around the themes of mass psychology, individualism vs. the mob, the power of imagery and the search for meaning in a blasted, post-modern world. Bill Gray, the world's most famous reclusive novelist, has been working for many years on a stalled masterpiece when he gets the chance to aid a hostage trapped in a basement in war-torn Beirut. Gray sets out on a doomed, quixotic journey, and his disappearance disrupts the cloistered lives of his obsessed assistant and the assistant's companion, a former Moonie who has also become Bill's lover. This haunting, masterful novel won the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1992. |
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*Major Prize = Pulitzer Prize, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Award, Man Booker Prize, and PEN/Faulkner Award
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