Mao II

First UK edition. 8vo. Pp. [viii], 241. Black boards lettered in gilt to spine. Jacket design by Peter Dyer.

Signed by Author to half title.

DeLillo's tenth novel won the 1992 PEN/Faulkner Award and received advance praise from Thomas Pynchon and Paul Auster. Dedicated to his editor, Gordon Lish, the book's title stems from a series of Warhol silkscreen prints depicting Mao Zedong. A reclusive novelist emerges from his self-imposed exile when he becomes the linchpin in an event staged to force the release of a poet hostage in Beirut. A prophetic work contemplating the profound effect that political terror was to have on American society "involv[ing] midair explosions and crumbled buildings". "One of the most intelligent, grimly funny voices to comment on life in present-day America." –NY Times