Libra - Softcover

DeLillo, Don

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141188227 ISBN 13: 9780141188225

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2006

Synopsis

An unparalleled work of historical conjecture, ranging imaginatively over huge tracts of the american popular consciousness, don delillos libra contains an introduction by the author in penguin modern classics in this powerful, eerily convincing fictional speculation on the assassination of president john f kennedy, don delillo chronicles lee harvey oswalds 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 jfk will galvanize the nation against communism, the scales are irrevocably tipped don delillo (b1936) was born and raised in new york city americana (1971), his first novel, announced the arrival of a major literary talent, and the novels that followed confirmed his reputation as one of the most distinctive and compelling voices in late-twentieth-century american fiction delillos comic gifts come to the fore in white noise (1985), which won the national book award, underworld (1997), hailed by martin amis as the ascension of a great writer, cosmopolis (2003), adapted into a film by david cronenberg, due to be released later this year, and falling man (2007), a novel about the aftereffects of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in new yorkif you enjoyed libra, you might like delillos americana, also available in penguin modern classicsdon delillos apocalyptic imagination takes on the assassination of john f kennedy breathtaking newsday

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Now with a new introduction by the author—"a thriller of the most profound sort"
—Chicago Tribune

"Libra operates at a dizzyingly high level of intensity throughout; it’s that true fictional rarity—a novel of admirable depth and relevance that’s also a terrific page-turner."
—USA Today

"DeLillo’s novel is like a stop-motion frame of the crossfire, a still picture of an awful moment.... [His] prose has a quality of demented lyricism."
—The New Yorker

About the Author:

DON DELILLO is the author of fourteen novels, including White Noise, Underworld and Falling Man and three plays. He has won the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, and the Jerusalem Prize. In 2006, Underworld was named one of the three best novels of the last twenty-five years by The New York Times Book Review, and in 2000 it won the William Dean Howells medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters for the most distinguished work of fiction of the past five years.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0141188227
• ISBN 13: 9780141188225
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 464