Libra
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9788806176785 (8806176781)
Publish date: June 1st 2008
Publisher: Einaudi
Pages no: 423
Edition language: Italian
"The key ingredient was to find a person of perfect balance. A person willing to see both sides of the argument but to find an equilibrium permitting the completion of the task at hand. With two forces tugging at both ends, which way would he turn when the time called? The end result of every constr...
Spoilers -- kind of....This is a really great book -- for most of it, I really loved this -- partially because I'm an assassination buff, but also because there's a taut intelligence and poetry in much of the writing, and also (I thought, at least) some really sublime characterization and lots of Pl...
this was okay. i liked [b:White Noise|11762|White Noise|Don DeLillo|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1327934706s/11762.jpg|327422] better. DeLillo, an academic writer, delves into minds and circumstances, and gives us an insider's conspiracy tale about Lee Harvey Oswald.
a work of bright and ruthless genius, the jfk assassination as recounted by some alien being from the far future. well actually, not really, not at all. well actually, at times it felt like it. is delillo less than human or more than human? the novel makes no attempt to be historically factual. actu...
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