num_pages: 456
description: "Shots ring out. A president dies. And a nation is plunged into psychosis.Don DeLillo's extraordinary Libra is a brilliant reimagining of the events and people surrounding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. 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 make sense of or draw inferences from the mass of information after the assassination, Libra presents an apologetically provocative picture of America in the second half of the last century."
language: English
title: Libra
titlecomplete: Libra
characters: John F. Kennedy, Lee Harvey Oswald
genres: 20th Century, American, Politics, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, The United States Of America, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 17051
places: Texas, Louisiana, New Orleans, Louisiana
awards: awardedAt: 568022400000
name: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 599644800000
name: Irish Times International Fiction Prize, awardedAt: 568022400000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 568022400000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Fiction
publisher: Lester & Orpen Dennys