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Jun 08, 2011MelissaBee rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
I recommend "Libra" to readers who may have failed at other attempts to read Don DeLillo's more well known and less structural novels, and are still wondering what all the fuss is about! As a child of the sixties, the assassination of John F. Kennedy is still a visceral moment in American history for me. The images from that day are burned into the minds of my generation, documents of madness, loss, and national grief. DeLillo captures our obsession with this moment by drawing us close to the enigmatic but central figure of this drama, Lee Harvey Oswald, with chilling, fascinating results. DeLillo takes the few facts we know about Oswald and knits them into a haunting and riveting narrative with all the skill of the brilliant writer he is. To draw near to such a lonely, lost character as Oswald is at once satisfying and chilling. DeLillo brilliantly captures a moment frozen in time and reanimates it for a new generation, as well as those of us still marked by it's tragedy.