Mao II

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  • Pulitzer Prize Nominee for Fiction (1992)
  • PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (1992)
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Mao II

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ISBN: 9781509837847
Authors: Don DeLillo
Publisher: Picador
Date of Publication: 2016-05-19
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Literary Fiction, Contemporary
Related Topics: Literature, Classics
Goodreads rating: 3.69
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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.
 

  • Pulitzer Prize Nominee for Fiction (1992)
  • PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (1992)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.