{"product_id":"mao-ii","title":"Mao II","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\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. 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn extraordinary novel from Don DeLillo about words and images, novelists and terrorists, the mass mind and the arch-individualist, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eMao II\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\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\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eMao II\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is the work of an ingenious writer at the height of his powers.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Don DeLillo","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67829796864194,"sku":null,"price":23.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0591\/8002\/4002\/files\/6115vy-p9tL._SY522.jpg?v=1792070274","url":"https:\/\/frictionbooks.com\/products\/mao-ii","provider":"Friction Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}