Mao II
Author: Don DeLillo
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.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…..Read More
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