Americana (Contemporary American fiction)

✍ Scribed by Don DeLillo

Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Year: 1989
Tongue: English
Leaves: 304
Category: Library

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✦ 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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