{"product_id":"9781440673368","title":"Mao II","description":"\u003cb\u003eWinner of the PEN\/Faulkner Award\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the author of \u003ci\u003eWhite Noise \u003c\/i\u003e(winner of the National Book Award) and \u003ci\u003eZero K\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom the Trade Paperback edition.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47123541885168,"sku":"9781440673368","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781440673368_p0.jpg?v=1763786668","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781440673368","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}