| Titre : | Mao II | | Type de document : | texte imprimé | | Auteurs : | Don DeLillo | | Importance : | 241 pages | | Format : | 20 cm | | ISBN/ISSN/EAN : | 978-1-509-83784-7 | | Note générale : | First published 1991 by Viking Penguin ; first published in Great Britain 1991 by Jonathan Cape Ltd. | | Index. décimale : | 813.54 | | Résumé : | 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. As Bill 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.
An extraordinary novel from Don DeLillo about words and images, novelists and terrorists, the mass mind and the arch-individualist, 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. Mao II is the work of an ingenious writer at the height of his powers. |
Mao II [texte imprimé] / Don DeLillo . - [s.d.] . - 241 pages ; 20 cm. ISBN : 978-1-509-83784-7 First published 1991 by Viking Penguin ; first published in Great Britain 1991 by Jonathan Cape Ltd. | Index. décimale : | 813.54 | | Résumé : | 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. As Bill 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.
An extraordinary novel from Don DeLillo about words and images, novelists and terrorists, the mass mind and the arch-individualist, 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. Mao II is the work of an ingenious writer at the height of his powers. |
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