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| Author | Don DeLillo |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Viking Press |
Publication date | 15 August 1988 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 458 pp |
| ISBN | 0-670-82317-1 |
| OCLC | 17510108 |
| 813/.54 19 | |
| LC Class | PS3554.E4425 L53 1988 |
Libra is a 1988 novel by Don DeLillo that describes the life of Lee Harvey Oswald and his participation in a fictional CIA conspiracy to assassinate President John F. Kennedy. The novel blends historical fact with fictional supposition.
Libra received critical acclaim and earned DeLillo the inaugural Irish Times International Fiction Prize, as well as a nomination for the 1988 National Book Award for Fiction.