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Don DeLillo's follow-up to Libra, his brilliant fictionalization of the Kennedy assassination, Mao II is a series of elusive set-pieces built around the themes of mass psychology, individualism vs. the mob, the power of imagery and the search for meaning in a blasted, post-modern world. Bill Gray, the world's most famous reclusive novelist, has been working for many years on a stalled masterpiece when he gets the chance to aid a hostage trapped in a basement in war-torn Beirut. Gray sets out on a doomed, quixotic journey, and his disappearance disrupts the cloistered lives of his obsessed assistant and the assistant's companion, a former Moonie who has also become Bill's lover. This haunting, masterful novel won the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1992.
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Mao II, Don DeLillo
- Sprache
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 1992
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- Titel
- Mao II
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Don DeLillo
- Verlag
- Penguin Books
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 1992
- Einband
- Hardcover
- ISBN10
- 0670839043
- ISBN13
- 9780670839049
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Belletristik, Historisches Thema, Gegenwartsliteratur, USA, 20. Jahrhundert, Amerikanische Literatur, Reise
- Originaltitel
- Mao II
- Bewertung
- 3,7 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- Don DeLillo's follow-up to Libra, his brilliant fictionalization of the Kennedy assassination, Mao II is a series of elusive set-pieces built around the themes of mass psychology, individualism vs. the mob, the power of imagery and the search for meaning in a blasted, post-modern world. Bill Gray, the world's most famous reclusive novelist, has been working for many years on a stalled masterpiece when he gets the chance to aid a hostage trapped in a basement in war-torn Beirut. Gray sets out on a doomed, quixotic journey, and his disappearance disrupts the cloistered lives of his obsessed assistant and the assistant's companion, a former Moonie who has also become Bill's lover. This haunting, masterful novel won the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1992.