Mao II
Ratings12
Average rating3.6
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Ratings12
Average rating3.6
"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.
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Dopo Cosmopolis che è stato un vero e proprio colpo di fulmine per me, questo mio secondo approccio a Delillo mi ha lasciato contraddetto. Solita straniante scrittura di Don ma questa volta (tranne il solito splendido incipit) la storia non mi ha colpito particolarmente e anche se alcuni passaggi sono bellissimi e intensi come solo lui riesce, il resto mi ha, non dico annoiato, ma lasciato con un senso di vuoto dentro.
