Mao II
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. Mao II explores a world in which the novelist's power to influence the inner life of a culture now belongs to bomb-makers and...
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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. Mao II explores a world in which the novelist's power to influence the inner life of a culture now belongs to bomb-makers and gunmen.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780670839049 (0670839043)
Publish date: June 20th 1991
Publisher: Viking
Pages no: 241
Edition language: English
Ενώ ξεκίνησε δυνατά κι έθεσε σημαντικά ζητήματα για γόνιμες συζητήσεις περί της πολιτικής, μυστικιστικής και καλλιτεχνικής ζωής έχασε γρήγορα την ορμή του.
I'm not a big fan of DeLillo..., he doesn't impress me.
Mao II (1994), by Don DeLillo. The ostensible central subject of this novel is a novelist recluse, Bill Gray, who has spent the past few decades working on, but never finishing, his latest novel. Other characters include Scott, a veritable old-school 'butler' who handles all of Bill's affairs and ke...
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