Author:Don DeLillo
An unparalleled work of historical conjecture, ranging imaginatively over huge tracts of the American popular consciousness, Don DeLillo's Libra contains an introduction by the author in Penguin Modern Classics.
In this powerful, eerily convincing fictional speculation on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Don DeLillo chronicles Lee Harvey Oswald's odyssey from troubled teenager to a man of precarious stability who imagines himself an agent of history. When "history" presents itself in the form of two disgruntled CIA operatives who decide that an unsuccessful attempt on the life of JFK will galvanize the nation against Communism, the scales are irrevocably tipped.
Don DeLillo (b.1936) was born and raised in New York City. Americana (1971), his first novel, announced the arrival of a major literary talent, and the novels that followed confirmed his reputation as one of the most distinctive and compelling voices in late-twentieth-century American fiction. DeLillo's comic gifts come to the fore in White Noise (1985), which won the National Book Award, Underworld (1997), hailed by Martin Amis as 'the ascension of a great writer', Cosmopolis (2003), adapted into a film by David Cronenberg, due to be released later this year, and Falling Man (2007), a novel about the aftereffects of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York.
If you enjoyed Libra, you might like DeLillo's Americana, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.
'Don DeLillo's apocalyptic imagination takes on the assassination of John F. Kennedy... Breathtaking'
Newsday
A marvellous debut by any standards... Beautifully done
—— Sunday TelegraphWitty, hard-edged and mouth-watering. A tightly crafted, vibrant book filled with the romance and hardships of family life, violence, music and butter
—— I-DRich and compelling. Warm social comedy, period detail and perceptive psychology... Kurlansky writes from the heart and taste-buds
—— Literary ReviewWhimsical. Kurlansky's powers of description and humour are abundantly engaging... [An] impassioned, nostalgic, charmingly written novel
—— Daily TelegraphExuberant...hilarious. Recipes for some of the mouth-watering dishes mentioned in the book provide a satisfactorily eccentric coda to an original New York novel
—— Good Book GuideJust dive in and mind the chocolate
—— Jewish Chronicle'Very enjoyable...Evans writes with tremendous verve and dash. Her ear for dialogue is superb, and she has wit and sharp perception...A consistently readable book filled with likeable characters: a study of loss that has great heart and humour'
—— Independent'A serious and accomplished first novel, an affecting study of togetherness and separation in a family, a marriage and, most importantly, between the twins'
—— Time Out'An exciting and vibrant read. It's a weird and wonderful fairy-tale about the lives of twins...26a is brilliant and a great read'
—— Sunday Express'Poetic, complex and lingering'
—— New Statesman'Highly coloured, linguistically inventive...Evans has a powerful and often beguiling imagination'
—— Daily Telegraph'Sensual and poetic, as well as powerful and uncompromising...A mature, compelling and beautiful first novel'
—— Times Literary Supplement'The writing is both mature and freshly perceptive, creating not only a warmly funny novel of a Neasden childhood - with its engaging minutiae of flapjacks and icepops, lip gloss and daisy hairclips - but a haunting account of the loss of innocence and mental disintegration.'
—— Maya Jaggi , Guardian
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