Libra

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.

ISBN	0141041994	Pages	464
ISBN13	9780141041995 (What's this?)	Weight (grammes)	308
Publisher	Penguin Books Ltd	Published in	London
Imprint	Penguin Books Ltd	Previous ISBN	9780140127119
Format	Paperback	Height (mm)	198
Publication date	29 Sep 2011	Width (mm)	129
DEWEY	813.54	Spine width (mm)	28
DEWEY edition	DC22	Academic level	General

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

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