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A gripping, masterful blend of fact and fiction, alive with meticulously portrayed characters both real and created, Libra is a grave, haunting, and brilliant examination of an event that has become an indelible part of the American psyche. In this powerful, eerily convincing fictional speculation on the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Don DeLillo chronicles Lee Harvey Oswald's odyssey from a troubled teenager to a man of precarious stability who imagines himself an agent of history. In his new introduction, DeLillo reexamines the evidence surrounding Oswald's role in the assassination as well as Oswald's place in popular culture. BACKCOVER: Now with a new introduction by the authora thriller of the most profound sort
Chicago Tribune
Libra operates at a dizzyingly high level of intensity throughout; it's that true fictional raritya novel of admirable depth and relevance that's also a terrific page-turner.
USA Today
DeLillo's novel is like a stop-motion frame of the crossfire, a still picture of an awful moment.... [His] prose has a quality of demented lyricism.
The New Yorker
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- Paperback 480 Pages
- Edition: Reissue
- ISBN-10: 0140156046
- ISBN-13: 9780140156041
- Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
- Pub date: May 01, 1991
- Dimensions: 20 cm x 13 cm x 2 cm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Hardcover, Audio Cassette and Others
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Left it on a plane by mistake, hence the 'Abandoned' status. Le sigh. Will replace eventually...