{"product_id":"mao-ii-by-don-delillo-9781529092110","title":"Mao II","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWinner of the PEN\/Faulkner Award, \u003cem\u003eMao II\u003c\/em\u003e is the work of an ingenious writer at the height of his powers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAn extraordinary novel from Don DeLillo about words and images, novelists and terrorists, the mass mind and the arch-individualist, \u003cem\u003eMao II\u003c\/em\u003e explores a world in which the novelist's power to influence the inner life of a culture now belongs to bomb-makers and gunmen.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Macmillan Publishers New Zealand Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48243041861868,"sku":"9781529092110","price":24.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781529092110-mao-ii-1.jpg?v=1787979777","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/products\/mao-ii-by-don-delillo-9781529092110","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}