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Mao II

A Novel

Author Don DeLillo
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On sale May 01, 1992 | 256 Pages | 978-0-14-015274-6
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Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award

From the author of White Noise (winner of the National Book Award) and The Silence, a profound novel about art, terror, masses, and the individual from "one of the most intelligent, grimly funny voices to comment on life in present-day America" (The New York Times)


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. As Bill 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.

An extraordinary novel from Don DeLillo about words and images, novelists and terrorists, the mass mind and the arch-individualist, 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. Mao II is the work of an ingenious writer at the height of his powers.
  • WINNER
    PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
  • WINNER
    PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
Don DeLillo is the author of sixteen novels, including Zero K, Underworld, Falling Man, White Noise, and Libra. He has won the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the Jerusalem Prize for his complete body of work, and the William Dean Howells Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2010, he was awarded the PEN/Saul Bellow Prize. The Angel Esmeralda was a finalist for the 2011 Story Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. In 2012, DeLillo received the Carl Sandburg Literary Award for his body of work. View titles by Don DeLillo

About

Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award

From the author of White Noise (winner of the National Book Award) and The Silence, a profound novel about art, terror, masses, and the individual from "one of the most intelligent, grimly funny voices to comment on life in present-day America" (The New York Times)


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. As Bill 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.

An extraordinary novel from Don DeLillo about words and images, novelists and terrorists, the mass mind and the arch-individualist, 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. Mao II is the work of an ingenious writer at the height of his powers.

Awards

  • WINNER
    PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
  • WINNER
    PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

Author

Don DeLillo is the author of sixteen novels, including Zero K, Underworld, Falling Man, White Noise, and Libra. He has won the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the Jerusalem Prize for his complete body of work, and the William Dean Howells Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2010, he was awarded the PEN/Saul Bellow Prize. The Angel Esmeralda was a finalist for the 2011 Story Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. In 2012, DeLillo received the Carl Sandburg Literary Award for his body of work. View titles by Don DeLillo

Additional formats

  • Mao II
    Mao II
    A Novel
    Don DeLillo
    978-1-4406-7336-8
    $9.99 US
    Ebook
    Penguin Books
    May 01, 1992
  • Mao II
    Mao II
    A Novel
    Don DeLillo
    978-1-4406-7336-8
    $9.99 US
    Ebook
    Penguin Books
    May 01, 1992

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    Oct 18, 2016
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    Don DeLillo
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    $18.00 US
    Paperback
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    Dec 29, 2009
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    $24.00 US
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    Penguin Books
    Dec 01, 1998
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    978-0-14-017917-0
    $16.00 US
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    Penguin Books
    Jan 01, 1994
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    Don DeLillo
    978-0-14-015604-1
    $18.00 US
    Paperback
    Penguin Books
    May 01, 1991
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    Don DeLillo
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    $16.95 US
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    Vintage
    Jul 17, 1989
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    $15.95 US
    Paperback
    Vintage
    Jul 17, 1989
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    $15.95 US
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    Don DeLillo
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    978-0-14-008568-6
    $16.00 US
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    Penguin Books
    Jan 07, 1986
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