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Mao II

By: Don DeLillo
Narrated by: Michael Prichard
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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. 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.

Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award, Mao II is the work of an ingenious writer at the height of his powers.

©2016 Don DeLillo (P)2016 Macmillan Digital Audio Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Metaphysical & Visionary Middle East

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The narrator's voice is quite flat and expressionless, which makes it slightly difficult to follow the conversation between characters as they all sound the same. This audio book is not divided by actual chapters, but is devided into sections of even time period.

brilliant story but deadpan performance

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