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Mao II A Novel
WINNER OF THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD ā¢ A profound novel about art, terror, masses, and the individual, from the National Book Awardāwinning author of White Noise, āone of the most ironic, intelligent, grimly funny voices to comment on life in present-day Americaā (The New York Times)
āThis novelās a beauty. A vision as bold and a voice as eloquent and morally focused as any in American writing.āāThomas 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 Scottās loverāand Billās.
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.
āThis novelās a beauty. A vision as bold and a voice as eloquent and morally focused as any in American writing.āāThomas 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 Scottās loverāand Billās.
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.
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Mao II A Novelā
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WINNER OF THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD ā¢ A profound novel about art, terror, masses, and the individual, from the National Book Awardāwinning author of White Noise, āone of the most ironic, intelligent, grimly funny voices to comment on life in present-day Americaā (The New York Times)
āThis novelās a beauty. A vision as bold and a voice as eloquent and morally focused as any in American writing.āāThomas 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 Scottās loverāand Billās.
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.
āThis novelās a beauty. A vision as bold and a voice as eloquent and morally focused as any in American writing.āāThomas 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 Scottās loverāand Billās.
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.
