Mao II
About this book
"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
- american literature
- authors
- authors, fiction
- award:pen_faulkner_award=1992
- award:pen_faulkner_award=fiction
- fiction
- fiction, general
- författare
- literature
- man-woman relationships
- pen/faulkner award winner
- skönlitteratur
- terrorists