{"product_id":"9780140152746","title":"Mao II","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the PEN\/Faulkner Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the author of \u003ci\u003eWhite Noise \u003c\/i\u003e(winner of the National Book Award) and \u003ci\u003eZero K\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47022029209840,"sku":"9780140152746","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780140152746_p0.jpg?v=1763641821","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780140152746","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}