{"product_id":"mao-ii","title":"Mao II","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eMao II\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eDon Delillo\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780140152746\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003ePenguin Books\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e1992\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eEdition Unstated\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE PEN\/FAULKNER AWARD - A profound novel about art, terror, masses, and the individual, from the National Book Award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eWhite Noise\u003c\/i\u003e, \"one of the most ironic, intelligent, grimly funny voices to comment on life in present-day America\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\"This novel's a beauty. A vision as bold and a voice as eloquent and morally focused as any in American writing.\"--Thomas Pynchon\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBill 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn extraordinary novel about words and images, novelists and terrorists, the mass mind and the arch-individualist, \u003ci\u003eMao II\u003c\/i\u003e is the work of an ingenious writer at the height of his powers.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Mao II | Don Delillo | Paperback | 9780140152746 | New | Fiction 1693496","offer_id":50818523169026,"sku":"1693496","price":31.01,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/6115vy-p9tL.jpg?v=1792516169","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/mao-ii","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}