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"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. "With a formidable body of work behind him, DeLillo has earned the reflexive musings of this heady portrait of an obsessed and reclusive writer — a novelist haunted by the corruptions of an image-dominated world, and hunted by those who deny him the eloquence of silence... DeLillo's edgy characters speak "the uninventable poetry, inside the pain, of what people say"; his talking heads murmur the mysteries of our age. For all its "cool gloom," his latest novel stands in denial of Gray's doom-drenched semiotics: it's a luminous book, f

Who reads Mao II : A Novel?

Author

Delillo, Don

Publisher

Penguin USA, Inc.

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9781440673368

Category

humor

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, American Fiction

Rating

4.1 / 5 (318 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14