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Mao II

By: Don DeLillo
Narrated by: Michael Prichard
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Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award, Mao II is the work of an ingenious writer at the height of his powers.

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.

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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 work of fiction not merely astonishingly fitting for our times, but rich and rewarding for anyone wishing to understand them
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Very slow to get off the ground. Sluggish. You can usually see from a distance where Don is taking us, but less so here... Ultimately, rather wordy. However, the fluidity of the dialogue is a plus—despite the repetitive use of "say/said" (which could have been handled more carefully).

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