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JFK conspiracy hazeDeLillo paranoiaOswald as myth

Author

Don DeLillo

Year

1988

Region

United States

This work has been selected for the Aravien index based on editorial review.

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In this powerful, eerily convincing fictional speculation on the assassination of 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 ope...

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