Libra
FictionLiteraryHistorical

Libra

by Don DeLillo

Publisher
Penguin
Pages
480
Language
English
Published
1991-05-01

Overview

<b>From the author of the National Book Award-winning novel <i>White Noise</i> comes an eerily convincing fictional speculation on the events leading up to the assassination of John F. Kennedy</b><br><br>In this powerful, unsettling novel, Don DeLillo chronicles Lee Harvey Oswald’s odyssey from troubled teenager to a man of precarious stability who imagines himself an agent of history. When “history” presents itself in the form of two disgruntled CIA operatives who decide that an unsuccessful attempt on the life of the president will galvanize the nation against communism, the scales are irrevocably tipped.<br><br>A gripping, masterful blend of fact and fiction, alive with meticulously portrayed characters both real and created, <i>Libra</i> is a grave, haunting, and brilliant examination of an event that has become an indelible part of the American psyche.

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