I will give DeLillo this much credit: he makes me think. And yet, in the end we are left with the possibility that one character, Osward, has less control over the actual events than we might have supposed but more control than we realized over how history would perceive those events. READ REVIEW 1 LIBRA by Don DeLillo RELEASE DATE: Aug. The two men sit on the deck, drinking and talking. But his planned isolation is interrupted when he is joined by a young filmmaker intent on documenting his experience in a one-take film. Certainly the story seems to stay within the bounds of what is known, but leaves individual motivations, individual actions and various interactions unstated and unclear enough to allow the reader to pursue numerous possible angles. Richard Elster, a retired secret war adviser, has retreated to a forlorn house in a desert, 'somewhere south of nowhere'. With so many questions and theories about these events, DeLillo's approach removes the bonds of everything else that has been written and allows the reader to imagine events in a way that feels unencumbered, which you would not think possible with events that are so well known. Libra is certainly done well in my opinion. For instance, Phillip Roth's A Plot Against America comes to mind. While I don' t view myself as a big fan of alternate history, I have found I like it when it is done well as I tend to like almost anything when done well. Since there continues to be uncertainty about these events and as DeLillo in no way presents Libra to be historically accurate, I would classify it as alternate history rather than historical fiction. What makes Libra so unsettling is DeLillo's ability to integrate literary. Libra is the story of Lee Harvey Oswald and the Kennedy assassination. The novel bears dissection on many levels, but is, taken whole, a seamless, brilliant work of compelling fiction. After reading three of Don DeLillo's novels, I'm still not sure what to think of him.

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