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Mao II
Reader Score
69%
69% of readers
recommend this book
"This novel's a beauty. A vision as bold and a voice as eloquent and morally focused as any in American writing."--Thomas Pynchon
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, his 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 about words and images, novelists and terrorists, the mass mind and the arch-individualist, Mao II is the work of an ingenious writer at the height of his powers.
Book Details
- Publisher: Penguin Books
- Publish Date: May 1st, 1992
- Pages: 256
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 7.78in - 5.13in - 0.72in - 0.47lb
- EAN: 9780140152746
- Recommended age: 18-UP
- Categories: • Literary• Psychological• Visionary & Metaphysical
About the Author
More books by Don Delillo
What people are saying
Owner, Duffy’s Tavern, Forest Park IL https://t.co/89zSiqG3sg
The last sentence of the first chapter of DeLillo’s MAO II is something I’ve thought about frequently over the years. Now I (sadly) think about it every day: “The future belongs to crowds.”
Daniel D'Addario is Variety's chief TV critic.
me when I went on vacation in China and brought Don DeLillo’s “Mao II” because I thought it was about Chinese history https://t.co/x2LQttMoVk
Keep cool but care. Leaving traces of my bookish compulsions around the internet. Find me on YouTube, Instagram, Substack, and an assortment of Podcasts. Seth
No, I'm not going to delude myself into think I can reverse engineer a point of influence here. It does however, immediately remind me of the Mooney wedding in Delillo's MAO II, and that continually resonant line, "our future belongs to crowds".
Praise for this book
Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award
"The writing is dazzling; the images, so radioactive that they glow afterward in our minds."
--Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
"If Don DeLillo has not yet been canonized as the leading American novelist, it will happen. The man is brilliant and daring . . . and Mao II is one of his best books."
--The Washington Post Book World
"This novel's a beauty . . . DeLillo takes us on a breathtaking journey, beyond the official versions of our daily history, behind all easy assumptions about who we're supposed to be, with a vision as bold and a voice as eloquent and morally focused as any in American writing."
--Thomas Pynchon
"A mordantly funny, casually prescient, hypnotically condensed novel . . . It is short, loosely plotted but simultaneously tight as a drum . . . Mao II goes beyond the easy tack of offering art as some humanistic antidote to terror, and instead delineates their uneasy commonalities."
--Granta