Libra - Softcover

DeLillo, Don

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0143190547 ISBN 13: 9780143190547

Publisher: Hamish Hamilton, 2013

Synopsis

In this powerful, eerily convincing fictional speculation on the assassination of  John F. Kennedy, 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 person 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.

About this title

About the Author:

Acclaimed novelist, poet, and essayist Don DeLillo published his first short  story when he was twenty-three years old. He has since written twelve novels, including  White Noise (1985), which won the National Book Award. It was followed by  Libra (1988), his novel about the assassination of President Kennedy, and by Mao  II , which won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. In 1997, he published the  bestselling Underworld , and in 1999 he was awarded the Jerusalem Prize, given to a  writer whose work expresses the theme of the freedom of the individual in society;  he was the first American author to receive it. DeLillo is also a member of the  American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Review:

“Libra operates at a dizzyingly high level of intensity throughout; it’s that true fictional rarity—a novel of admirable depth and relevance that’s also a terrific page-turner.” - USA Today

“DeLillo has created a thriller of the most profound sort ... Libra is electrifying, a book alive with suggestion.” - Chicago Tribune

About this edition

• Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0143190547
• ISBN 13: 9780143190547
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 408