From the author of White Noise (winner of the National Book Award) and The Silence, an eerily convincing fictional speculation on the events leading up to the assassination of John F. Kennedy 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 ...
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From the author of White Noise (winner of the National Book Award) and The Silence, an eerily convincing fictional speculation on the events leading up to the assassination of John F. Kennedy 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. 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.
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LIBRA is DeLillo's best book, and much better than the Warren Commission Report.
LeoBloom
Jan 1, 2010
Breathtaking
Don Delillo's novel is a marvel of historical fiction. He succeeds in taking a banal and mediocre personality -- Lee H. Oswald's -- and lends it a depth that approaches gravitas. Above this, however, Delillo's greatest achievement in this novel is capturing perfectly the absolutely ungrammatical way people -- even educated people -- actually speak. We do not, after all, speak in complete sentences. Or, rather, we seldom do. We speak in fragments and solecisms. I give this book my highest recommendation. It's the best thing I've read in years.
