Mao II - by Don Delillo (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"One of the most ironic, intelligent, grimly funny voices to comment on life in present-day America" (The New York Times), Don DeLillo presents an extraordinary new novel about novelists and terrorists, the mass mind and the arch individualist. A love triangle that moves from New York to London to Beirut, Mao II tells an intimate story of faith, longing and redemption.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b><b>Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award</b> <p/>From the author of <i>White Noise </i>(winner of the National Book Award) and <i>The Silence</i>, 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 (<i>The New York Times</i>)</b> <p/>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. <p/>An extraordinary novel from Don DeLillo about words and images, novelists and terrorists, the mass mind and the arch-individualist, <i>Mao II</i> explores a world in which the novelist's power to influence the inner life of a culture now belongs to bomb-makers and gunmen. <i>Mao II</i> is the work of an ingenious writer at the height of his powers.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><b>Praise for <i>Mao II</i> <p/>Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award</b> <p/>The writing is dazzling; the images, so radioactive that they glow afterward in our minds. <br><b>--Michiko Kakutani, <i>The New York Times</i></b> <p/>If Don DeLillo has not yet been canonized as the leading American novelist, it will happen. The man is brilliant and daring . . . and <i>Mao II </i>is one of his best books. <br><b>--<i>The Washington Post Book World</i></b> <p/>This novel's 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. <br><b>--Thomas Pynchon</b> <p/>A mordantly funny, casually prescient, hypnotically condensed novel . . . It is short, loosely plotted but simultaneously tight as a drum . . . <i>Mao II</i> goes beyond the easy tack of offering art as some humanistic antidote to terror, and instead delineates their uneasy commonalities. <br><b>--<i>Granta</i></b><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Don DeLillo </b>is the author of fifteen novels, including <i>Zero K</i>, <i>Underworld</i>, <i>Falling Man</i>, <i>White Noise</i>, and <i>Libra</i>. He has won 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. In 2010, he was awarded the PEN/Saul Bellow Prize. <i>The Angel Esmeralda</i> was a finalist for the 2011 Story Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. In 2012, DeLillo received the Carl Sandburg Literary Award for his body of work.
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