num_pages: 456
description: The anti-hero of Libra is Lee Harvey Oswald, who is as hauntingly real in the book as he was elusive in reality. Here he is, as large and as small as his life - joining the marines, pouring over Marxist texts, defecting to Russia, taking a potshot at General Edwin Walker, handing out leaflets for the Fair Play Cuba committee, imagining himself as an agent of history. That is until "history" presents itself in the form of two disgruntled CIA operatives, who decide that an unsuccessful attempt on JFK`s life, one that could be linked to Fidel Castro, is the only way to put Cuba back in geopolitical play - and that Oswald would be the perfect instrument for their plans. (1998)
language: English
title: Libra
titlecomplete: Libra
characters: John F. Kennedy, Lee Harvey Oswald
genres: The United States Of America, 20th Century, Politics, Literature, Novels, Contemporary, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Literary Fiction, American
ratings_count: 17067
places: New Orleans, Louisiana, Louisiana, Texas
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