Libra Paperback by Don DeLillo

Product Details

• Publisher: Hamish Hamilton (2013-08-27)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 408 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780143190547
• Item Weight: 323.19 grams
• Dimensions: 7.71 x 5.0 x 0.85 cm

In this powerful, eerily convincing fictional speculation on the assassination of  John F. Kennedy, 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 person 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.

About the Author

Don DeLillo is the author of sixteen novels, including Zero K, Underworld, Falling Man, White Noise, and Libra. He has won the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the Jerusalem Prize for his complete body of work, and the William Dean Howells Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2010, he was awarded the PEN/Saul Bellow Prize. The Angel Esmeralda was a finalist for the 2011 Story Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. In 2012, DeLillo received the Carl Sandburg Literary Award for his body of work.