Libra: Don DeLillo

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Libra is a gripping, masterful blend of fact and fiction, laying bare the wounded American psyche and the dark events that still torment it. If you enjoyed Libra , you might like DeLillo's Americana , also available in Penguin Modern Classics. Fue una lección sobre las leyes del movimiento y un recordatorio para la humanidad entera de que nada es seguro». 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. His strangely benevolent face blesses all those who believe power in the United States to be wielded furtively by dark forces.

S. government who were unhappy that President Kennedy, after the failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961, refused to consider war with communist Cuba.For example, each of the three former CIA operatives is attempting to shift the scales back in their favor after they were mistreated following the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion. James Ellroy mentioned Libra as an inspiration for his novel American Tabloid, another take on the causes of the assassination. Furthermore, if those who decide the allocations of the real and unreal are cruel, mad or colossally wrong, what then?

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. S. Marine, he is imprisoned at a Marine brig, Oswald witnesses the guards’ brutality against prisoners and “tried to feel history in the cell. He knew what Trotsky had written, that revolution leads us out of the dark night of the isolated self.

The only person who knows for certain is Kennedy's actual killer, and even then his knowledge is limited to what he directly experienced.