DeLillo, Don

Mao II

ISBN: 0670839043
New York, NY, USA: Viking Penguin, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. "Six thousand five hundred couples are married at Yankee Stadium. A famously reclusive writer has his picture taken. A Swiss UN worker is held hostage in Beirut. Don DeLillo's extraordinary new novel is about words and images, novelists and terrorists, the mass mind and the arch-individualist. Haunted by the spirits of such diverse figures as Andy Warhol and Mao Zedong, it takes us from New York to London to Beirut, terror's modern republic. At its heart is an isolated writer, Bill Gray, 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 clairvoyant young woman who is Scott's lover, and Bill's." (from front flap) The award-winning novel by Don(ald Richard) DeLillo (b. 1936), the great & prolific American author whose works are being canonized in the Library of America series. Among his most acclaimed & haunting creations, this novel delves into contemporary society & the human predicament as they hurtle into global calamity- & is more relevant & insightful than ever as of this writing. Hardcover in unclipped first-issue dust jacket (with $19.95 price & "0691" printed at front flap), first edition, first printing as indicated by number sequence on copyright page. Obtained from our Brother Bookseller Michael Brophy of Doyle's Books (doylesbooks.com) in Fayetteville, NY at the Ann Arbor Antiquarian Book Fair held on October 13, 2024. An essential DeLillo collectible classic in its rarest original form, in exceptionally very fine condition: Book with only a hint of wear & a few tiny bumps, creases at edges & corners of front, back covers & spine; very slight rubbing to upper edge of text block; a bit of fading, browning to pale green-colored blank paste-downs & endpapers; otherwise appearing substantially mint inside & out. Dust jacket with only a touch of rubbing, faint scratching to front, back covers & spine; a few tiny bumps, creases at edges & corners of same & flaps. Very Fine / Very Fine. [Item #7079]

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