Full name: Mao II: A Novel

Author: Don DeLillo Year: 1991 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Classic, Award winners Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Barns&Noble Amazon eBooks.com LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780140152746 0140152741

"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. Similar books: Giles Goat-Boy by John Barth V. by Thomas Pynchon Sabbath's Theater by Philip Roth Rabbit Redux by John Updike The Recognitions by William Gaddis Vineland by Thomas Pynchon Mr. Vertigo by Paul Auster I Married a Communist by Philip Roth The Body Artist by Don DeLillo Operation Shylock by Philip Roth The Victim by Saul Bellow Ship of Fools by Katherine Anne Porter The Names by Don DeLillo Glamorama by Bret Easton Ellis Dangling Man by Saul Bellow Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens Room by Emma Donoghue Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner