WINNER OF THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD - A profound novel about art, terror, masses, and the individual, from the National Book Award-winning author of White Noise, "one of the most ironic, intelligent, grimly funny voices to comment on life in present-day America" (The New York Times) "This novel's a beauty. A vision as bold and a voice as eloquent and morally focused as any in American writing."--Thomas 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 Scott's lover--and Bill's. 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.
Sobre o autor(a)
Delillo, Don
DON DELILLO nasceu em Nova York, em 1936. Sua obra inclui romances, contos e peças de teatro. Em 1985, recebeu o prestigioso National Book Award por Ruído branco. Também foi agraciado com o PEN/Faulkner Award e o Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction. Entre seus trabalhos mais conhecidos estão Os nomes (1982), Submundo (1997) e Zero K (2016), todos publicados pela Companhia das Letras. |
| ISBN | 9780140152746 |
| Autor(a) | Delillo, Don |
| Editora | Penguin Group USA |
| Ano de edição | 1992 |
| Páginas | 256 |
| Acabamento | Brochura |