{"product_id":"mao-ii","title":"Mao II","description":"\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE PEN\/FAULKNER AWARD - A profound novel about art, terror, masses, and the individual, from the National Book Award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eWhite Noise\u003c\/i\u003e, \"one of the most ironic, intelligent, grimly funny voices to comment on life in present-day America\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"This novel's a beauty. A vision as bold and a voice as eloquent and morally focused as any in American writing.\"--Thomas Pynchon\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBill 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. As Bill enters the world of political violence, a nightscape of Semtex explosives and hostages locked in basement rooms, his dangerous passage leaves two people stranded: his brilliant, fixated assistant, Scott, and the strange young woman who is Scott's lover--and Bill's. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn extraordinary novel about words and images, novelists and terrorists, the mass mind and the arch-individualist, \u003ci\u003eMao II\u003c\/i\u003e is the work of an ingenious writer at the height of his powers.","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48003636920509,"sku":"BS-TC0-152746","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0771\/9767\/2637\/files\/9780140152746-HD.jpg?v=1786891264","url":"https:\/\/boundigo.com\/products\/mao-ii","provider":"Boundigo Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}