Mao II

By Don DeLillo

Subjects: award:pen_faulkner_award=1992, Literature, Fiction, general, PEN/Faulkner Award Winner, Authors, fiction, award:pen_faulkner_award=fiction, Fiction, Authors

Description: "One of the most intelligent, grimly funny voices to comment on life in present-day America" (The New York Times), Don DeLillo presents an extraordinary new novel about words and images, novelists and terrorists, the mass mind and the arch-individualist. At the heart of the book is Bill Gray, a famous reclusive writer who escapes the failed novel he has been working on for many years and 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.