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Mao II

Don DeLillo

Paperback | Pages: 254 pages

Rating: 3.68 | 9578 Users | 551 Reviews

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Title	:	Mao II
Author	:	Don DeLillo
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 254 pages
Published	:	1992 by Penguin Books (first published 1991)
Categories	:	Fiction. Novels. Literature. American. Contemporary. Literary Fiction. 20th Century

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"One of the most intelligent, grimly funny voices to comment on life in present-day America" (The New York Times), Don DeLillo presents an extraordinary new novel about words and images, novelists and terrorists, the mass mind and the arch-individualist. At the heart of the book is Bill Gray, a famous reclusive writer who escapes the failed novel he has been working on for many years and enters the world of political violence, a nightscape of Semtex explosives and hostages locked in basement rooms. Bill's dangerous passage leaves two people stranded: his brilliant, fixated assistant, Scott, and the strange young woman who is Scott's lover—and Bill's.

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Original Title:	Mao II
ISBN:	0140152741 (ISBN13: 9780140152746)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Bill Gray, Karen Janney
Literary Awards:	Pulitzer Prize Nominee for Fiction (1992), PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (1992)

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I can't deny that Don DeLillo has great way with words but the lack of traditional storytelling prevented me from enjoying this novel.

Mao II is a bleak novel about a world where the moral consciousness of the people are controlled by terrorists and messiahs rather than writers. The writers are in state of retreat because their freedom of speech and expression has narrowed. Their space is now occupied by terrorists. Delillo writes: "What terrorists gain, novelists lose. The degree to which they influence mass consciousness is the extent of our decline as shapers of sensibility and thought. The danger they represent equals our

Consuming ImagesDon Delillos 1991 novel (his 10th) isn't just about the individual versus the crowd, but about the written word against the picture or the image.Fiction is the preserve of the writer, while television (and now social media) is the vehicle of the mass media. Early in the novel, DeLillos character, Karen, observes:It was interesting how you could make up the news as you went along by sticking to picture only. (32)We've got used to consuming images, whether with or without words.

This novel is just about ideal for me as its themes combine photography (and the power of the image) with writing (and the role of the novelist). About 90% of my time is spent either taking photographs or reading.The title of the book is derived from Andy Warhol's famous portrait of Mao Zedong, but the power of the image, especially of a portrait, is a dominant part of the story and it isnt just Mao II that is discussed. Alongside images and novelists, the book also explores terrorism and

As with Underworld, the opening prologuebased upon an actual occurrenceof the mass-wedding of young and youngish couples of the Unification Church, held in Yankee Stadium and performed by the Reverend Sun Myung Moon, is one of the strongest points of the book. DeLillo excels at such portraits set to the page, crisply and potently capturing the atmosphere of this bizarre and fascinating spectacle, with its ordered ranks of veils and ties, the regimented structure and candle-row colors that

Ive read this book seven or eight times, and I long ago decided its a modern masterpiece, but as I read it yet again for a class it feels fresh yet again.If youve never read DeLillo and want to start, I think this is the one to begin with. Its less ambitious than Underworld, but then so is almost everything else. I find White Noise vastly overrated; I didnt enjoy it in its time when it was cutting edge enough to explore the early implications of image-is-everything postmodernism. Now, with

The hardest thing about reading a Don Delillo novel is everything is quotable, every sentence he writes is a sentence only Don Delillo could've written, anyway you look at it. This is a short book, shouldn't take one more than a few days, but it's such a rich, deeply profound book that needs to be read slowly, with much concentration lest you miss out on all the cool stuff. Some of it isn't accessible, not right away, but when you mull over it, you do see it make sense. See it define your life