Libra - by Don Delillo (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>On November 22, 1963, in the streets of Dallas, Lee Harvey Oswald's path intersected with the President John F. Kennedy's and the world witnessed the terrifying explosion of America's dreams. In Libra Don DeLillo applies his masterful imagination to Kennedy's assassination and crestes eerily convincing speculation about one of America's most compelling mysteries.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>From the author of <i>White Noise </i>(winner of the National Book Award) and <i>The Silence</i>, an eerily convincing fictional speculation on the events leading up to the assassination of John F. Kennedy</b> <p/>In this powerful, unsettling novel, 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 form 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. <p/>A gripping, masterful blend of fact and fiction, alive with meticulously portrayed characters both real and created, <i>Libra</i> is a grave, haunting, and brilliant examination of an event that has become an indelible part of the American psyche.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><b>Praise for <i>Libra</i> </b> <p/><b>Finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction </b> <p/>[DeLillo's] richest novel . . . It's in commonplace moments that [he] reveals his genius . . . a triumph. <br><b>--Anne Tyler, <i>The New York Times </i></b> <p/>Much of DeLillo's earlier fiction now seems a brilliant prelude to [this novel]<i> </i>. . . <i>Libra</i> displays his genius for creative paranoia: he fills the gaps in the record with his imagination, spinning a brilliant web out of a heap of improbable coincidences. <br><b>--<i>London Review of Books </i></b> <p/>[<i>Libra</i>] is like a stop-motion frame of the crossfire, a still picture of an awful moment . . . DeLillo's prose has a quality of demented lyricism.<br><b>--<i>The New Yorker</i></b> <p/>Extraordinary intensity . . . unforgiving thoroughness . . . DeLillo has created a thriller of the most profound sort . . . <i>Libra</i> is electrifying, a book alive with suggestion. <br><b>--<i>Chicago Tribune</i></b><p><i>Libra</i> 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. <br><b>--<i>USA Today</i></b></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Don DeLillo</b> published his first short story when he was twenty-three years old. He has since written twelve novels, including <b>White Noise</b> (1985) which won the National Book Award. It was followed by <b>Libra</b> (1988), his novel about the assassination of President Kennedy, and by <b>Mao II</b>, which won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.<p>In 1997, he published the bestselling <b>Underworld</b>, 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. He is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.</p>
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