Ebook {Epub PDF} Mao II by Don DeLillo

Published in , Mao II is the tenth novel of author Don DeLillo and the winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award. The speculative fiction novel follows the story of a reclusive author, Bill Gray, who struggles with his relative fame and a return to public life despite his desire to retreat from society and commit to his work.  · Mao II is a fictional, postmodern novel written by American novelist, playwright, and short story writer Don DeLillo. He dedicated the book to . 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. Mao II is the work of an ingenious writer at the height of his powers/5().

"Mao II" is not about Salman Rushdie, but Don DeLillo confirms a connection between his latest novel and the silencing of the author of "The Satanic Verses." In a recent telephone interview from his home in Westchester County, N.Y., Mr. DeLillo said his planning and notes on the book preceded the Rushdie affair by a short time. Mao II. A novel by Don DeLillo, Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Published by Viking, , pages. 75, copies in the first printing. Jacket design by Michael Ian Kaye, artwork by Andy Warhol. See the Mao II editions for more. Dedication: "to Gordon Lish" (author; see the Odds and Ends page for more on DeLillo and Lish). Mao II Summary Study Guide includes comprehensive information and analysis to help you understand the book. This study guide contains the following sections: This detailed literature summary also contains Topics for Discussion and a Free Quiz on Mao II by Don Delillo. This complex, multi-faceted narrative tells the story of reclusive novelist.

Mao II is a fictional, postmodern novel written by American novelist, playwright, and short story writer Don DeLillo. He dedicated the book to his good friend Gordon Lish, another American. MAO II. by Don DeLillo ‧ RELEASE DATE: June 1, 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. 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. Mao II is the work of an ingenious writer at the height of his powers.