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  • Published: 7 April 2006
  • ISBN: 9780141188225
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 464
  • RRP: $29.99

Libra




First time in Modern Classics

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 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.

  • Published: 7 April 2006
  • ISBN: 9780141188225
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 464
  • RRP: $29.99

About the author

Don Delillo

Don DeLillo was born and raised in New York City. He has written fifteen novels and three stage plays and has won many honours including the National Book Award for White Noise, the International Fiction Prize for Libra, the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for Mao II, the Jerusalem Prize, the Howells Medal for Underworld and the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction.

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