num_pages: 260
description: 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.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.
language: English
title: Mao II
titlecomplete: Mao II
characters: George Haddad, Karen Janney, Bill Gray
genres: 20th Century, American, Literary Fiction, Novels, United States, Literature, Classics, The United States Of America, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 11616
places: Greece, Lebanon, Beirut, Cyprus, New York (State), Mediterranean Sea, New York City, New York, Athens, Manhattan, New York City, New York
awards: awardedAt: 694252800000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 694252800000
name: PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
publisher: Vintage