Libra
Audiobook
28 September 2017Imprint: Macmillan Digital Audio
Synopsis
Don DeLillo's extraordinary Libra is a brilliant reimagining of the events and people surrounding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
Shots ring out. A president dies. And a nation is plunged into psychosis . . .
Concentrating on the lives of Lee Harvey Oswald, some rogue former spooks unhappy with Kennedy's presidency, and Nicholas Branch, a CIA archivist, trying to...
Details
28 September 20171103 minutes
Michael Prichard
9781509845156Imprint: Macmillan Digital Audio
Reviews
An unparalleled trip into the heart of AmericaObserver
WonderfulGuardian
Even with all the swirling contradictory data, this you feel is America, and the news starts hereSunday Times
Monumental, DeLillo at his chilling best. Concentrates on the inner life of the people who shaped the Kennedy assassination. He constructs the very human faces behind a monstrous event, creating fiction which trespasses on realityTime Out
