Libra - Softcover

Don DeLillo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140112510 ISBN 13: 9780140112511

Publisher: Penguin, 1989

Synopsis

A factional reconstruction of the events leading up to John Kennedy's assassination. The antihero of the book is, of course, Lee Harvey Oswald, who is as hauntingly real in this book as he was elusive in real life.

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Review:

DeLillo's swift, ironic, and witty cross-country nightmare doesn't have a dull or unoriginal line (Rolling Stone)

A writer who, once you read him, makes you want to read everything he has done (Sunday Times)

Nearly every sentence rings true. DeLillo is a man of frightening perception (Joyce Carol Oates)

Witty, clever and incisive. Marvellously realised (Time Out)

From the Back Cover:

At twenty-eight, David Bell is the American dream come true. He has fought his way to the top, surviving office purges and scandals to become a top television executive. David's world is made up of the images that flicker across America's screens, the fantasies that enthrall America's imagination. And then the dream--and the dream-making--become a nightmare. At the height of his success, David sets out to rediscover reality.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0140112510
• ISBN 13: 9780140112511
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 464