{"product_id":"mao-ii","title":"Mao II","description":"\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\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.\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 0140152741\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9780140152746\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Delillo, Don\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Penguin Books\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (May 1992)","offer_id":45937563173061,"sku":"9780140152746","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9780140152746.jpg?v=1772881050","url":"https:\/\/www.inveni.store\/products\/mao-ii","provider":"Inveni","version":"1.0","type":"link"}