The hostage and the writer. (Roaming Spotlight).(novel Mao II adapted for the stage)(Brief Article)
American Theatre, April, 2002 by Sampson, Benjamin W.
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DURHAM, N.C.: "When a writer doesn't show his face, he becomes a local symptom of God's reluctance to appear." This is what longtime recluse and writer Bill Gray, in the novel Mao II by Don DeLillo (in photo), says to the female photographer hired to invade his hideaway, take his picture and re-introduce him to the world.
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Jody McAuliffe, who adapts Mao II for the stage this month at Theatre Previews at Duke, says the story analyzes the "analogy between ...
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