โ Scribed by Don DeLillo
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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. In this powerful, eerily convincing fictional speculation on the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Don DeLillo chronicles Lee Harvey Oswaldโs odyssey from a troubled teenager to a man of precarious stability who imagines himself an agent of history. In his new introduction, DeLillo reexamines the evidence surrounding Oswaldโs role in the assassination as well as Oswaldโs place in popular culture. BACKCOVER: Now with a new introduction by the authorโโa thriller of the most profound sortโ โChicago Tribune โLibra operates at a dizzyingly high level of intensity throughout; itโs that true fictional rarityโa novel of admirable depth and relevance thatโs also a terrific page-turner.โ โUSA Today โDeLilloโs novel is like a stop-motion frame of the crossfire, a still picture of an awful moment.... [His] prose has a quality of demented lyricism.โ โThe New Yorker
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