In the subways, in many of the streets, in corners of the park at night, contact could be dangerous. Contact was not a word or a touch but the air that flashed between strangers.
Mao II is a novel written by Don DeLillo. Released in 1991, it tells of a writer travelling to Lebanon to help another writer.
Characters[]
- Bill Gray - a reclusive novelist
- Scott - Bill's assistant
- Karen Janney - Scott's former lover
- Kim Jo Pak - Karen's husband
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Publisher's summary[]
"One of the most intelligent, grimly funny voices to comment on life in present-day America" (The New York Times), Don DeLillo presents an extraordinary new novel about words and images, novelists and terrorists, the mass mind and the arch-individualist. At the heart of the book is Bill Gray, a famous reclusive writer who escapes the failed novel he has been working on for many years and 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.
Sources[]
- Goodreads
- Wikipedia
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