Title: Mao II
First published: 1991
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.
Subjects: Authors, Fiction, Literature, PEN/Faulkner Award Winner, award:pen_faulkner_award=1992, award:pen_faulkner_award=fiction, Fiction, general, Authors, fiction, American literature, Terrorists, Man-woman relationships, Författare, Skönlitteratur
LC classification: PS3554.E4425 M36 1991