{"product_id":"mao-ii-9780140152746","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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDon DeLillo \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of fifteen novels, including \u003ci\u003eZero K\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eUnderworld\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFalling Man\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWhite Noise\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eLibra\u003c\/i\u003e. He has won the National Book Award, the PEN\/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the Jerusalem Prize for his complete body of work, and the William Dean Howells Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2010, he was awarded the PEN\/Saul Bellow Prize. \u003ci\u003eThe Angel Esmeralda\u003c\/i\u003e was a finalist for the 2011 Story Prize and the PEN\/Faulkner Award for Fiction. In 2012, DeLillo received the Carl Sandburg Literary Award for his body of work.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50613588164882,"sku":"9780140152746","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_b1959d70-28af-4ad8-b5b6-d8a57bd8ff35.jpg?v=1732410385","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/mao-ii-9780140152746","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}