Mao II

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Mao II
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Don DeLillo
SeriesPicador Collection
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:256
Dimensions(mm): Height 197,Width 129
Category/GenreModern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
ISBN/Barcode 9781529092110
ClassificationsDewey:813.54
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Pan Macmillan
Imprint Picador
NZ Release Date 28 February 2023
Publication Country United Kingdom

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.

Author Biography

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.