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ja! Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. One of the few American authors to explore political violence and terrorism in contemporary fiction. An archeologist of the English language. (  ) kikkifclive | Dec 11, 2009 |  A fascinating account of the life of Lee Harvey Oswald and the assassination of JFK. Libra is made up of several interlapped narratives: an ex-CIA officer writing a book about the JFK assassination, the response of two CIA agents to the Bay of Pigs fiasco, and the life of Lee Harvey Oswald. DeLillo interweaves factual and fictional material into a fascinating tale of Cold War paranoia and curdled idealism. Lee Harvey Oswald comes accross as strangely sympathetic: misguided and lost, but attempting to be decent. ( ) CarlosMcRey | Oct 3, 2008 | An incredibly interesting take on the JFK assassination. This is a good political drama, as well as a good detective story. (  ) Djupstrom | Apr 21, 2008 | Although both idea and writing are appealing, the predictability of the story made this a somewhat tedious read. (And by 'predictability' I don't mean knowing what happens to JFK in the end.) (  ) updraught | Feb 11, 2008 | Relato de la vida de Oswald, y más específicamente de los meses y días anteriores al asesinato de Kennedy. Visión ligeramente diferente a la que nos ofrece Oliver Stone en su película JFK, pero básicamente coinciden en la teoría principal, e.d. que Oswald era una especie de cabeza de turco de todo un complejo de intereses que van desde el poder económico hasta los anti-castristas. ( ) maripax | Dec 2, 2007 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0140127119, Paperback)A gripping, masterful blend of fact and fiction, alive with meticulously portrayed characters both real and created, Libra is a grave, haunting, and brilliant examination of an event that has become an indelible part of the American psyche. In this powerful, eerily convincing fictional speculation on the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Don DeLillo chronicles Lee Harvey Oswald’s odyssey from a troubled teenager to a man of precarious stability who imagines himself an agent of history. In his new introduction, DeLillo reexamines the evidence surrounding Oswald’s role in the assassination as well as Oswald’s place in popular culture. BACKCOVER: 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 (hentet fra Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:57:57 -0400) Den første test runde er færdig. Besøg Open Shelves Classification gruppen for flere detaljer. |
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