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Libra
Don Delillo
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Description for Libra
paperback. Reimagining the events and people surrounding the assassination of President John F Kennedy, this title concentrates on the lives of Lee Harvey Oswald, some rogue former spooks unhappy with Kennedy's presidency, and Nicholas Branch, a CIA archivist, trying to make sense of or draw inferences from the mass of information after the assassination. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 30. Weight in Grams: 326.
Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas. Friday, November 22, 1963. 12.30 PM.
Shots ring out. A president dies. And a nation is plunged into psychosis.
Don DeLillo's extraordinary Libra is a brilliant reimagining of the events and people surrounding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Concentrating on the lives of Lee Harvey Oswald, some rogue former spooks unhappy with Kennedy's presidency, and Nicholas Branch, a CIA archivist, trying to make sense of or draw inferences from the mass of information after the assassination, Libra presents an unapologeticly provocative picture of America in the second half of the last ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
New
Number of Pages
464
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141041995
SKU
9780141041995
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Ref
99-1
About Don Delillo
Don DeLillo was born and raised in New York City. He has written fifteen novels and three stage plays and has won many honours including the National Book Award for White Noise, the International Fiction Prize for Libra, the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for Mao II, the Jerusalem Prize, the Howells Medal for Underworld and the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for ... Read more
Reviews for Libra
An unparalleled trip into the heart of America
Observer
Wonderful
Guardian
Even with all the swirling contradictory data, this you feel is America, and the news starts here
Sunday Times
Monumental, DeLillo at his chilling best. Concentrates on the inner life of the people who shaped the Kennedy assassination. He constructs the very human ... Read more
Observer
Wonderful
Guardian
Even with all the swirling contradictory data, this you feel is America, and the news starts here
Sunday Times
Monumental, DeLillo at his chilling best. Concentrates on the inner life of the people who shaped the Kennedy assassination. He constructs the very human ... Read more