A gripping tale of mystery and political intrigue about the events that led to the assassination of John F. Kennedy. DeLillo is also the author of White Noise, an American Book Award winner.
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A gripping tale of mystery and political intrigue about the events that led to the assassination of John F. Kennedy. DeLillo is also the author of White Noise, an American Book Award winner.
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LIBRA is DeLillo's best book, and much better than the Warren Commission Report.
LeoBloom
Jan 1, 2010
Breathtaking
Don Delillo's novel is a marvel of historical fiction. He succeeds in taking a banal and mediocre personality -- Lee H. Oswald's -- and lends it a depth that approaches gravitas. Above this, however, Delillo's greatest achievement in this novel is capturing perfectly the absolutely ungrammatical way people -- even educated people -- actually speak. We do not, after all, speak in complete sentences. Or, rather, we seldom do. We speak in fragments and solecisms. I give this book my highest recommendation. It's the best thing I've read in years.
