The 10th novel from the National Book Award-winning author of White Noise and Libra is about words and images, novelists and terrorists, and is haunted by the intermingled spirits of such diverse figures as Andy Warhol and Mao Zedong. This compelling argument between literature and political terror takes the reader from New York to London to Athens to the no-man's-land of Beirut.
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The 10th novel from the National Book Award-winning author of White Noise and Libra is about words and images, novelists and terrorists, and is haunted by the intermingled spirits of such diverse figures as Andy Warhol and Mao Zedong. This compelling argument between literature and political terror takes the reader from New York to London to Athens to the no-man's-land of Beirut.
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Fine in fine jacket. 8vo. Quarter black cloth and gray paper covered boards, with silver spine lettering. Teal end papers. 241 pages. No names, remainder marks, or marks to text. In illustrated dust-jacket (with price intact), designed by Michael Ian Kay, with artwork by Andy Warhol. A crisp, bright, unmarked copy, in dust-jacket, of the first edition, first printing (with number line ending in "1").
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Fine in Fine dust jacket. 0670839043. First edition. INSCRIBED by Don DeLillo to noted translator Tiina Nunnally on half-title. Fine in fine dust jacket. Tiina Nunnally has translated the Henning Mankell mystery novels among others.; 8vo 8"-9" tall; 241 pages.
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"Years ago, I used to think it was possible for a novelist to alter the inner life of the culture," says Bill Gray, DeLillo's protagonist. "Now bomb-makers and gunmen have taken that territory. They make raids on human consciousness."
Of all contemporary American novelists, Don DeLillo has his finger on the Zeitgeist, a spooky ear for the electronic static that clings to and distracts our minds, an unerring antennae for the hidden structures of power behind the throne. His 1991 novel Mao II is one of his finest and eerily predictive of the dark world to come. It concerns itself with the cultish massmind, the terrorist as agent of consciousness, our image-saturated world, and our apocalyptic moment.
Crowds are ubiquitous in the novel: mass weddings at Yankee Stadium presided over by Rev. Sunmyung Moon, Tiananmen Square's democracy students, the Ayatollah Khomeini's funeral, soccer riots. Bill Gray is a novelist in seclusion (Salinger? Pynchon?) who is drawn into a world of political violence and perhaps becomes a sacrificial victim of the world he is obstructed from rendering in words. The beautiful drifters populate the novel: Scott, the novelist's assistant, an escaped Moonie, a photographer of writers.
The novel's title refers to an Andy Warhol print and its endless multiplication of images in which we find ourselves awash. Read DeLillo for the way we live now.
