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Title	:	Mao II
Author	:	Don DeLillo
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 254 pages
Published	:	1992 by Penguin Books (first published 1991)
Categories	:	Fiction. Novels. Literature. American. Contemporary. Literary Fiction. 20th Century

Mao II

Don DeLillo

Paperback | Pages: 254 pages

Rating: 3.68 | 9578 Users | 551 Reviews

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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.

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Original Title:	Mao II
ISBN:	0140152741 (ISBN13: 9780140152746)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Bill Gray, Karen Janney
Literary Awards:	Pulitzer Prize Nominee for Fiction (1992), PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (1992)

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This is the only book I've ever read that I wanted to start reading again immediately after finishing it. I have read his description of two people watching the funeral of the Ayatollah Khomeini a dozen times. I wish I could have written that. The description of the mass wedding at the start of the book is also remarkable.

I once read an interview with DeLillo, where he claimed that he often liked to change or rearrange words in his sentences for the sound or effect it created, even if it ended up changing the meaning of the sentence entirely. For me, this just smacks of irresponsibility for someone held in such high literary esteem, and demonstrates his overriding pretentiousness as a novelist.The characters in this novel speak without any realism, seeming to communicate only in profound aphorisms to pound home

As with Underworld, the opening prologuebased upon an actual occurrenceof the mass-wedding of young and youngish couples of the Unification Church, held in Yankee Stadium and performed by the Reverend Sun Myung Moon, is one of the strongest points of the book. DeLillo excels at such portraits set to the page, crisply and potently capturing the atmosphere of this bizarre and fascinating spectacle, with its ordered ranks of veils and ties, the regimented structure and candle-row colors that

I am a fan of Don DeLillo's artistic ambition and his want to address ideas more profound than simple character study. When Tom Wolfe wrote his diatribe against MFA writing programs and accused them of passing along a tradition of meaningless, nonempathetic stories rather than work that addresses morality and social meaning, he undermined his own argument with his own bare-faced self-promotion of _The Bonfire of the Vanities_, a work that may in essence have fit his own ideal but was poorly

The future belongs to crowds.If youve tried DeLillo and didnt get on with him this probably isnt going to change your mind. All the familiar DeLillo hallmarks are present and correct every character speaking in an identical voice, every character as intelligent and eloquent as the author; dramatic tension is hewn into the sentences rather than the plot; and its primarily cerebral in its appeal as opposed to emotionally engaging. There are five players in Mao II. Bill is a famous reclusive

Mao II centers around two events: the emergence of a reclusive author in New York and a hostage crisis in Lebanon. That both events are treated with the glibness and breakneck pace of news cycles isn't, in and of itself, reason to praise this novel, even if you consider that DeLillo does so as a commentary. What makes Mao II great, then, is that he goes all the way with commentary on the media, inviting the reader into the world of the twenty-four hour news rush, making you eagerly await every

This novel is just about ideal for me as its themes combine photography (and the power of the image) with writing (and the role of the novelist). About 90% of my time is spent either taking photographs or reading.The title of the book is derived from Andy Warhol's famous portrait of Mao Zedong, but the power of the image, especially of a portrait, is a dominant part of the story and it isnt just Mao II that is discussed. Alongside images and novelists, the book also explores terrorism and