false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1211356802m/1198392.jpg 402 19 Don DeLillo's follow-up to Libra, his brilliant fictionalization of the Kennedy assassination, <i>Mao II</i> is a series of elusive set-pieces built around the themes of mass psychology, individualism vs. the mob, the power of imagery and the search for meaning in a blasted, post-modern world. Bill Gray, the world's most famous reclusive novelist, has been working for many years on a stalled masterpiece when he gets the chance to aid a hostage trapped in a basement in war-torn Beirut. Gray sets out on a doomed, quixotic journey, and his disappearance disrupts the cloistered lives of his obsessed assistant and the assistant's companion, a former Moonie who has also become Bill's lover. This haunting, masterful novel won the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1992. 2456942 book 1991 Mao II: A Novel total:1808|5:322|4:698|3:598|2:154|1:36| 1808 6540 2370 112 14130 3462029002 9783462029000 76 6 3.62 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166576725m/14130.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14130.Mao_II_A_Novel 3 2 false Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 29 17:06:21 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 30 21:45:02 -0700 2008 more...]]> 402 0140152741 9780140152746 1633 96 3.62 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156916983m/402.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/402.Mao_II_A_Novel 3 1 false Sat Aug 26 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Fri Jul 11 10:41:44 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 11 10:41:57 -0700 2008 more...]]> 402 0140152741 9780140152746 1633 96 3.62 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156916983m/402.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/402.Mao_II_A_Novel 5 0 false Fri Dec 11 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Dec 05 23:48:21 -0800 2009 Sat Dec 12 18:47:44 -0800 2009 more...]]> 402 0140152741 9780140152746 1633 96 3.62 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156916983m/402.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/402.Mao_II_A_Novel 4 1 false Sat May 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 27 10:42:30 -0700 2009 Sat May 09 07:17:32 -0700 2009 more...]]> 402 0140152741 9780140152746 1633 96 3.62 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156916983m/402.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/402.Mao_II_A_Novel 1 1 false Fri Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2002 Tue Aug 21 11:42:14 -0700 2007 Tue Aug 28 12:15:35 -0700 2007 402 0140152741 9780140152746 1633 96 3.62 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156916983m/402.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/402.Mao_II_A_Novel 0 0 false Thu Dec 04 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 01 17:00:48 -0700 2008 Thu Dec 04 19:07:07 -0800 2008
The writing is technically fine, polished. I enjoyed the ex-Unification Church (moonie) character the best by far. She is the only one I cared about.

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Mao II is about with individualism and identity. I suspect DeLillo had been reading his Benjamin and maybe ...more...]]> 402 0140152741 9780140152746 1633 96 3.62 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156916983m/402.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/402.Mao_II_A_Novel 4 0 false Tue Oct 07 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Jan 12 15:13:08 -0800 2008 Wed Oct 08 09:42:13 -0700 2008
very postmodern, very meta- in the way delillo describes the novelist's role in shaping public consciousness. The whole book seems to get at the tension between man's desire to belong to a whole, to get lost in something bigger (addressing religious cults, terrorist g...more...]]> 402 0140152741 9780140152746 1633 96 3.62 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156916983m/402.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/402.Mao_II_A_Novel 3 0 false Fri Jun 19 05:32:05 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 19 05:43:42 -0700 2009 more...]]> 402 0140152741 9780140152746 1633 96 3.62 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156916983m/402.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/402.Mao_II_A_Novel 4 0 false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Aug 29 13:50:16 -0700 2007 Wed Aug 29 13:50:34 -0700 2007 more...]]> 402 0140152741 9780140152746 1633 96 3.62 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156916983m/402.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/402.Mao_II_A_Novel 4 0 false Mon May 28 07:06:46 -0700 2007 Sat Jun 16 07:01:00 -0700 2007 more...]]> 402 0140152741 9780140152746 1633 96 3.62 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156916983m/402.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/402.Mao_II_A_Novel 4 0 false Wed Jul 30 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 29 09:17:51 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 04 10:05:51 -0700 2008 more...]]> 402 0140152741 9780140152746 1633 96 3.62 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156916983m/402.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/402.Mao_II_A_Novel 4 0 false Tue May 19 15:58:38 -0700 2009 Tue May 19 16:04:35 -0700 2009 "Falling Man" sounds scary, and the 9/11 subject matter automatically makes it edgy, but in the end the book was about a mid-lif...more...]]> 402 0140152741 9780140152746 1633 96 3.62 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156916983m/402.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/402.Mao_II_A_Novel 5 0 false Sat Jun 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 15 13:18:18 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 15 13:23:18 -0700 2009 more...]]> 402 0140152741 9780140152746 1633 96 3.62 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156916983m/402.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/402.Mao_II_A_Novel 3 0 false Thu Jun 19 09:38:02 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 04 07:19:37 -0700 2008 more...]]> 402 0140152741 9780140152746 1633 96 3.62 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156916983m/402.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/402.Mao_II_A_Novel 4 0 false Wed Aug 20 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 13 16:48:46 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 20 11:19:02 -0700 2008
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