Libra

Don DeLillo

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Penguin
18 June 2018

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Crime & Mystery

Series: Penguin Essentials

The gripping American classic, now a Penguin Essential

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 century.

By: Don DeLillo
Imprint: Penguin
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 181mm, Width: 111mm, Spine: 27mm
Weight: 251g
ISBN: 9780241984536
ISBN 10: 024198453X
Series: Penguin Essentials
Publication Date: 18 June 2018
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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 faces behind a monstrous event, creating fiction which trespasses on reality * Time Out * An audacious blend of fiction and fact * The Times *