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“One of the most
original, intelligent, and visionary novelists now writing in America. Mao II contains a series of
extraordinary images presented with a complex intensity that no photograph or
Warhol silk-screen, or even a film sequence could achieve.”
— New York Times Book Review
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“Mr. DeLillo is the
preeminent novelist of the political nightmare…A spellbinding writer.”
— Wall Street Journal
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“A riveting novel of
ideas…Some of DeLillos’ most penetrating insights into the relationship between
fiction and current events.”
— San Diego Union
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“A dark satire on the
manipulation of images by artists, terrorists, and news hounds…[DeLillo]
creates scenes of memorable and disturbing clarity.”
— Newsweek
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“Another remarkable
achievement. Mao II reconfirms
DeLillo’s status as a modern master and literary provocateur.”
— Publishers Weekly
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“Don DeLillo is one
of the truly enigmatic figures in modern American letters.”
— San Francisco Review of Books
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“This is Don DeLillo
at his best, on the verge of identifying the ineffable, of capturing the
essence of what has been a vague suspicion, of fashioning sentences that themselves
seem to contain multitudes.”
— Detroit News
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“A luminous book,
full of anger deflected into irony, with moments of hard-earned transcendence.”
— Kirkus Reviews
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“DeLillo’s words, by
virtue of their arranger’s consummate skill, are a pleasure to read.”
— Arizona Daily Star
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“A taut, intense
novel of ideas that pack the menacing warning of a cocked trigger…DeLillo’s
themes are firmly rooted in spare, graphic prose and a gripping narrative.”
— Virginian Pilot & Star Ledger
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“With DeLillo we are
in the hands of a master.”
— New York Newsday
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“Open-ended,
resonant, and challenging.”
— Details
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“His concepts, his
thoughts on the relationship between art and terror, are brilliant and
original.”
— Los Angeles Reader
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“A splendidly written,
unnerving book. Quick sentences and brisk dialogue…Just a tremendous book.”
— Indianapolis Star
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“A riveting study of
the individual and the mob.”
— Detroit Free Press
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“Mao II digs deep into themes, with intelligence and insight. The
plot roads with force and intent. DeLillo has a gift for capturing dialogue
that is a constant revelation…DeLillo also captures the condition of
late-twentieth-century culture better than anyone else writing today.”
— Baltimore City Paper
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“A beautifully
readable, haunting tale that jolts along at its own unsettling, disjunctive
pace.”
— San Francisco Chronicle
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“A funny, fierce
novel. For new readers, it’s a perfect introduction to his nervy storytelling.
For eager fans, it’s a potent distillation of his themes.”
— Boston Sunday Herald
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“DeLillo has staked a
claim in the mineral heart of postmodern lit. A Lone Ranger, he fires his
perceptions like a belt-load of silver bullets. His novels are guaranteed IQ
boosters.”
— Vanity Fair