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Mao II

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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. As Bill 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. An extraordinary novel about words and images, novelists and terrorists, the mass mind and the arch-individualist, 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.

Издательство: "Macmillan Publishers" (2016)

ISBN: 978-1-509-83784-7

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DeLillo, Don

born Nov. 20, 1936, New York, N.Y., U.S.

U.S. novelist.

Born to immigrant parents, DeLillo worked in advertising before beginning to write seriously. His postmodernist works portray the unrest and alienation of an America cosseted by material excess and stupefied by empty mass culture and politics. Ratner's Star (1976) attracted attention with its baroque comic sense and verbal facility. His vision later turned darker and his characters more willful in their destructiveness and ignorance, as in Players (1977) and White Noise (1985). Libra (1988) portrays Lee Harvey Oswald, Underworld (1997) portrays 1950s America, and The Body Artist (2001) centres on a woman who has to deal with the fact of her husband's suicide.

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▪ American author
born Nov. 20, 1936, New York, N.Y., U.S.
 
 American novelist whose postmodernist works portray the anomie of an America cosseted by material excess and stupefied by empty mass culture and politics.

      After his graduation from Fordham University, New York City (1958), DeLillo worked for several years as a copywriter at an advertising agency. DeLillo's first novel, Americana (1971), is the story of a network television executive in search of the “real” America. It was followed by End Zone (1972) and Great Jones Street (1973). Ratner's Star (1976) attracted critical attention with its baroque comic sense and verbal facility.

      Beginning with Players (1977), DeLillo's vision turned darker, and his characters became more willful in their destructiveness and ignorance. Critics found little to like in the novel's protagonists but much to admire in DeLillo's elliptical prose. The thrillers Running Dog (1978) and The Names (1982) followed. White Noise (1985), which won the American Book Award for fiction, tells of a professor of Hitler studies who is exposed to an “airborne toxic event”; he discovers that his wife is taking an experimental substance said to combat the fear of death, and he vows to obtain the drug for himself at any cost. In Libra (1988), DeLillo presented a fictional portrayal of Lee Harvey Oswald (Oswald, Lee Harvey), the assassin of President John F. Kennedy (Kennedy, John F.). Mao II (1991) opens with a mass wedding officiated by cult leader Sun Myung Moon (Moon, Sun Myung). It tells the story of a reclusive writer who becomes enmeshed in a world of political violence.

      DeLillo's later works of fiction include Underworld (1997), which provides a commentary on American history in the second half of the 20th century by tracing the journeys of a baseball, as well as Cosmopolis (2003), set largely in a billionaire's limousine as it moves across Manhattan, and Falling Man (2007), which tells the story of a survivor of the September 11 attacks in 2001.

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Источник: DeLillo, Don

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  • Mao — Tsetung Mao Tsetung, Mao Zedong Mao Zedongprop. n. The leader of the Chinese communist party and later of teh People s Repbulic of China; b. 1893, d. 1976. Also referred to a simply {Mao}. [Also spelled {Mao Tse Tung}.] [WordNet 1.5] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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