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A review by schenkelberg
Libra by Don DeLillo
4.0
While marvelous, this turned out not to reach the level among my favorite Delillo books. It might have been how I also found simultaneous books to read next to it, but I think the slow pace of Libra contributed to how I found other books almost continually more interesting.
The premise and the plot, however, are absolutely fantastic. Delillo studies deep into the murk surrounding the assassination of President Kennedy, and weaves this narrative into it, the story of Lee Oswald, who never really liked his middle name anyways and was surprised when the media leapt on it as they did. It had me scrambling across wikipedia, knowing full well that I'd find the relevant facts I'd just read in a passage, knowing also that this depiction and synthesis of the facts was entirely fictional. The book accelerated until the end, cracking like a gunshot as the words put me behind and inside the eyes of mister oswald, crumpling over in that famous picture with a bullet in his gut, the only one who really knew what was happening in that moment. Chilling and stunning, this is fine work by Don Delillo. I just wish it started out more swiftly.
The premise and the plot, however, are absolutely fantastic. Delillo studies deep into the murk surrounding the assassination of President Kennedy, and weaves this narrative into it, the story of Lee Oswald, who never really liked his middle name anyways and was surprised when the media leapt on it as they did. It had me scrambling across wikipedia, knowing full well that I'd find the relevant facts I'd just read in a passage, knowing also that this depiction and synthesis of the facts was entirely fictional. The book accelerated until the end, cracking like a gunshot as the words put me behind and inside the eyes of mister oswald, crumpling over in that famous picture with a bullet in his gut, the only one who really knew what was happening in that moment. Chilling and stunning, this is fine work by Don Delillo. I just wish it started out more swiftly.