{"product_id":"libra-17","title":"Libra","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn unparalleled work of historical conjecture, ranging imaginatively over huge tracts of the American popular consciousness, Don DeLillo's \u003ci\u003eLibra\u003c\/i\u003e contains an introduction by the author in Penguin Modern Classics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this powerful, eerily convincing fictional speculation on the assassination of President 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 operatives who decide that an unsuccessful attempt on the life of JFK will galvanize the nation against Communism, the scales are irrevocably tipped.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDon DeLillo (b.1936) was born and raised in New York City. \u003ci\u003eAmericana\u003c\/i\u003e (1971), his first novel, announced the arrival of a major literary talent, and the novels that followed confirmed his reputation as one of the most distinctive and compelling voices in late-twentieth-century American fiction. DeLillo's comic gifts come to the fore in \u003ci\u003eWhite Noise\u003c\/i\u003e (1985), which won the National Book Award, \u003ci\u003eUnderworld \u003c\/i\u003e(1997), hailed by Martin Amis as 'the ascension of a great writer', \u003ci\u003eCosmopolis \u003c\/i\u003e(2003), adapted into a film by David Cronenberg, due to be released later this year, and \u003ci\u003eFalling Man\u003c\/i\u003e (2007), a novel about the aftereffects of the 9\/11 terrorist attacks in New York.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf you enjoyed \u003ci\u003eLibra\u003c\/i\u003e, you might like DeLillo's\u003ci\u003e Americana\u003c\/i\u003e, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Don DeLillo's apocalyptic imagination takes on the assassination of John F. Kennedy... Breathtaking' \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNewsday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54221291422040,"sku":"9780141188225","price":16.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780141188225.jpg?v=1764662412","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/libra-17","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}