- Fiction, Assassination, Assassins, Presidents
In this powerful, eerily convincing fictional speculation on the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Don DeLillo chronicles Lee Harvey Oswald's odyssey from troubled teenager to a man of precarious stability who imagines himself an agent of history.
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- Author
- Don DeLillo
- First published
- 1988
- Pages
- 468
- Publisher
- Quality Paperback Book Club, Ediciones, G.K. Hall
- Editions
- 34
- Language
- Swedish, German, French, Russian
- ISBN
- 9782742731107
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Donald Richard DeLillo (Don DeLillo) is an American novelist, playwright and essayist, DeLillo's works centers on subjects as diverse as TV, nuclear war, sports, language, performance art, the Cold War, the digital age, politics, economics, and terrorism.
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