description: 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.
language: German
title: Mao II
titlecomplete: Mao II
characters: Bill Gray, George Haddad, Karen Janney
genres: The United States Of America, 20th Century, Literature, Novels, Contemporary, Classics, Fiction, Literary Fiction, United States, American
ratings_count: 11620
places: Cyprus, New York (State), Greece, Mediterranean Sea, Beirut, Manhattan, New York City, New York, Athens, Lebanon, New York City, New York
awards: awardedAt: 694252800000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 694252800000
name: PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
publisher: Rowohlt Tb.