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Title: Libra is not just for for Kennedy assasination buffs
Review: I was seven years old when Kennedy was shot. A sad faced man came on the television screen and announced, "President Kennedy has died." People were crying everywhere. Libra was my first close look at the whole event that sent America into a tail spin, and DeLillo mixes Oswald biographical detail with his uniquely crafted sentences of flowing, aliterative fiction. I never was a Kennedy assasination buff and I'm stll not, but I loved reading this novel. The story kept me on the edge - this is a real page turner. Part-fiction and part Oswald's world, the story may be close to the truth of what really happened, or it could be a fantasy from DeLillo's vast imagination. It doesn't matter where the truth lies. It doesn't matter that we all know how it ends. Getting there is a mind-capturing ride.John Baker (awats@pacbell.net)
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