Mao II (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Don DeLillo
- First Published: 1991
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Self-discovery, Power, personal or social, Religion, Novelists, Mysteries, Cults, Terrorism or terrorists, Intelligence service, Hostages or hostage taking
- Locales: New York, NY, London, England, Beirut, Lebanon, Northeast (U.S.), Athens, Greece
When Mao II opens, novelist Bill Gray has elected to withdraw from public scrutiny for more than twenty-five years. The author of two books that, in the 1950's, had found a cultlike following, Gray decided that such celebrity status made him a commodity and retired to a bunkerlike compound outside Manhattan. In that time, he has worked endlessly revising a novel-in-progress that rests in dozens of boxes and binders in his compound. Gray knows the book is a waste but cannot bring himself to acknowledge that. With curmudgeon eccentricity, Gray sees himself as the last fragile...
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