Start a free 30day trial today and get your first audiobook free. The first edition of the novel was published in 1988, and was written by don delillo. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading libra contemporary american fiction. In an interview that she gave some fifty years after the fact, marina oswald porter is still puzzling over the. Don delillo is the author of many bestselling novels, including point omega, falling man, white noise, libra and zero k, and has won many honours in america and abroad. Libra is a retelling of the assasination of jfk by lee harvey oswald this book will make you believe the conspiracy theories. Balance at the edge of belief, peter lang publishing, 2004. The first edition of the novel was published in 2003, and was written by don delillo. I come to delillo s libra via james ellroys american tabloid. Get this book free when you sign up for a 30day trial. It was followed by libra 1988, his novel about the assassination of president kennedy, and by mao ii, which won the penfaulkner award for fiction. Libra is an intriguing fictional imagining of how a conspiracy might have been behind the assassination of president john f.
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