{"product_id":"mao-ii-by-don-delillo-9781529092110","title":"Mao II","description":"Winner of the PEN\/Faulkner Award, Mao II is the work of an ingenious writer at the height of his powers.\n\nBill 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.\n\nAs 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.\n\nAn extraordinary novel from Don DeLillo about words and images, novelists and terrorists, the mass mind and the arch-individualist, Mao II explores a world in which the novelist's power to influence the inner life of a culture now belongs to bomb-makers and gunmen.","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.co.nz\/products\/mao-ii-by-don-delillo-9781529092110","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}