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Mao II
Mao II: A Novel | Don DeLillo
Winner of the PEN/Faulkner AwardFrom the author of White Noise (winner of the National Book Award) and Zero K"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.From the Trade Paperback edition.
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EmilieGR
Mao II: A Novel | Don DeLillo
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Window into a modern immigration story

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Taylor
Mao II: A Novel | Don DeLillo
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Ominous photo...

It's fascinating reading DeLillo's thoughts on writing. I know the Bill character's system of beliefs is not the same as the author's, but I'm sure there is some crossover. Not my favorite DeLillo novel, but it's still DeLillo...it's still exceptional, venturing into the shadowy corners of illicit subjects.

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Taylor
Mao II: A Novel | Don DeLillo
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"Through history it's the novelist who has felt affinity for the violent man who lives in the dark."

DeLillo at his ominous best.

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ww123412
Mao II: A Novel | Don DeLillo
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The terrorist has supplanted the influence of the author.