{"product_id":"libra-isbn-9780140156041","title":"Libra","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the author of the National Book Award-winning novel \u003ci\u003eWhite Noise\u003c\/i\u003e comes an eerily convincing fictional speculation on the events leading up to the assassination of John F. Kennedy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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. When “history” presents itself in the form of two disgruntled CIA operatives who decide that an unsuccessful attempt on the life of the president will galvanize the nation against communism, the scales are irrevocably tipped.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA gripping, masterful blend of fact and fiction, alive with meticulously portrayed characters both real and created, \u003ci\u003eLibra\u003c\/i\u003e is a grave, haunting, and brilliant examination of an event that has become an indelible part of the American psyche.\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eLibra\u003c\/i\u003e:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the National Book Award for Fiction \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[DeLillo's] richest novel . . . It's in commonplace moments that [he] reveals his genius . . . a triumph.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Anne Tyler, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Much of DeLillo’s earlier fiction now seems a brilliant prelude to [this novel]\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e. . . \u003ci\u003eLibra\u003c\/i\u003e displays his genius for creative paranoia: he fills the gaps in the record with his imagination, spinning a brilliant web out of a heap of improbable coincidences.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[\u003ci\u003eLibra\u003c\/i\u003e] is like a stop-motion frame of the crossfire, a still picture of an awful moment . . . DeLillo's prose has a quality of demented lyricism.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Extraordinary intensity . . . unforgiving thoroughness . . . DeLillo has created a thriller of the most profound sort . . . \u003ci\u003eLibra\u003c\/i\u003e is electrifying, a book alive with suggestion.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eLibra\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eDon DeLillo \u003c\/b\u003ehas written seventeen novels, including \u003ci\u003eWhite Noise\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the National Book Award. It was followed by \u003ci\u003eLibra\u003c\/i\u003e, his bestselling novel about the assassination of President Kennedy; \u003ci\u003eMao II\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the PEN\/Faulkner Award for Fiction; and the bestselling \u003ci\u003eUnderworld\u003c\/i\u003e, which in 2000 won the Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters for the most distinguished work of fiction published in the prior five years. In 1999, DeLillo was awarded the Jerusalem Prize, given to a writer whose work expresses the theme of freedom of the individual in society. His other books include the novels \u003ci\u003eCosmopolis, Falling Man\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003ePoint Omega\u003c\/i\u003e and the story collection \u003ci\u003eThe Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories\u003c\/i\u003e. He has also written occasional essays and three stage plays. In 2010 DeLillo became the third author to receive the PEN\/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction. He was awarded the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction in 2013.","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46305221968101,"sku":"NP9780140156041","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780140156041.jpg?v=1767731399","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/libra-isbn-9780140156041","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}