Libra - Don Delillo [0]
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Introduction
PART ONE
In the Bronx
17 April
In New Orleans
26 April
In Atsugi
20 May
In Fort Worth
19 June
In Moscow
2 July
In Minsk
PART TWO
15 July
In Fort Worth
12 August
In Dallas
6 September
In New Orleans
25 September
In Mexico City
4 October
In Dallas
22 November
In Dallas
25 November
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Don DeLillo published his first short story when he was twenty-three years old. He has since written thirteen novels, including White Noise (1985), which won the National Book Award. It was followed by Libra (1988), his bestselling novel about the assassination of President Kennedy; Mao II (1991), which won the PEN/ Faulkner Award for Fiction; and the bestselling Underworld (1997), 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. Other novels include Americana, End Zone, and Great Jones Street, all available from Penguin. His most recent novel is Cosmopolis. In 1999, DeLillo was awarded the Jerusalem Prize, given to a writer whose work expresses the theme of freedom of the individual in society; he was the first American author to receive it.
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Published in Penguin Books 1991
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To the boys at 607: Tony, Dick and Ron
Introduction: Assassination Aura
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Some stories never end. Even in our time, in the sightlines of living history, in the retrieved instancy of film and videotape, there are stories waiting