num_pages: 241
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.
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: 11614
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: Penguin Books