Mao II by Don DeLillo audiobook

Mao II

By Don DeLillo
Read by Michael Prichard

Random House Audio, Simon & Schuster Audio
8.25 Hours • • Unabridged
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Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award “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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Summary

Summary

A 1992 Pulitzer Prize Finalist for Fiction

Winner of the 1992 PEN/Faulkner Award

Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award

“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.

Editorial Reviews

Editorial Reviews

“One of the most original, intelligent, and visionary novelists now writing in America. Mao II contains a series of extraordinary images presented with a complex intensity that no photograph or Warhol silk-screen, or even a film sequence could achieve.” —New York Times Book Review
“Mr. DeLillo is the preeminent novelist of the political nightmare…A spellbinding writer.” —Wall Street Journal
“A riveting novel of ideas…Some of DeLillos’ most penetrating insights into the relationship between fiction and current events.” —San Diego Union
“A dark satire on the manipulation of images by artists, terrorists, and news hounds…[DeLillo] creates scenes of memorable and disturbing clarity.” —Newsweek
“Another remarkable achievement. Mao II reconfirms DeLillo’s status as a modern master and literary provocateur.” —Publishers Weekly
“Don DeLillo is one of the truly enigmatic figures in modern American letters.” —San Francisco Review of Books
“This is Don DeLillo at his best, on the verge of identifying the ineffable, of capturing the essence of what has been a vague suspicion, of fashioning sentences that themselves seem to contain multitudes.” —Detroit News
“A luminous book, full of anger deflected into irony, with moments of hard-earned transcendence.” —Kirkus Reviews
“DeLillo’s words, by virtue of their arranger’s consummate skill, are a pleasure to read.” —Arizona Daily Star
“A taut, intense novel of ideas that pack the menacing warning of a cocked trigger…DeLillo’s themes are firmly rooted in spare, graphic prose and a gripping narrative.” —Virginian Pilot & Star Ledger
“With DeLillo we are in the hands of a master.” —New York Newsday
“Open-ended, resonant, and challenging.” —Details
“His concepts, his thoughts on the relationship between art and terror, are brilliant and original.” —Los Angeles Reader
“A splendidly written, unnerving book. Quick sentences and brisk dialogue…Just a tremendous book.” —Indianapolis Star
“A riveting study of the individual and the mob.” —Detroit Free Press
“Mao II digs deep into themes, with intelligence and insight. The plot roads with force and intent. DeLillo has a gift for capturing dialogue that is a constant revelation…DeLillo also captures the condition of late-twentieth-century culture better than anyone else writing today.” —Baltimore City Paper
“A beautifully readable, haunting tale that jolts along at its own unsettling, disjunctive pace.” —San Francisco Chronicle
“A funny, fierce novel. For new readers, it’s a perfect introduction to his nervy storytelling. For eager fans, it’s a potent distillation of his themes.” —Boston Sunday Herald
“DeLillo has staked a claim in the mineral heart of postmodern lit. A Lone Ranger, he fires his perceptions like a belt-load of silver bullets. His novels are guaranteed IQ boosters.” —Vanity Fair

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Author

Author Bio: Don DeLillo

Author Bio: Don DeLillo

Don DeLillo is an acclaimed essayist, playwright, short story writer, and novelist. He has won the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award, the PEN/Saul Bellow Prize, the Jerusalem Prize, and the William Dean Howells Medal. Before becoming a writer, he worked for the advertising agency Ogilvy & Mather. Currently, he lives in New York City.

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Available Formats : Digital Download
Runtime: 8.25
Audience: Adult
Language: English

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