Mao II
DeLillo, Don2022
Book
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 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.
Main title:
Mao II / Don DeLillo.
Author:
DeLillo, Don, author
Work:
Imprint:
London : Picador, 2022.
Collation:
241 pages ; 20 cm.
Series title:
Picador collection ; no. 30.
Notes:
Originally published: New York: Viking, 1991.
ISBN:
9781529092110 (pbk)
Dewey class:
813.54F
Language:
English
BRN:
3315586