Oswald's Tale: An American Mystery"MARVELOUS . . . BREATHTAKING." --The New York Times Book Review "MAILER SHINES . . . Explaining Kennedy's assassination through the flaws in Oswald's character has been attempted before, notably by Gerald Posner in Case Closed and Don Delillo in Libra. But neither handled Oswald with the kind of dexterity and literary imagination that Mailer here supplies in great force. . . . Oswald's Tale weaves a story not only about Oswald or Kennedy's death but about the culture surrounding the assassination, one that remains replete with miscomprehensions, unraveled threads and lack of resolution: All of which makes Oswald's Tale more true-to-life than any fact-driven treatise could hope to be. . . . Vintage Mailer." --The Philadelphia Inquirer "FASCINATING . . . A MASTER STORYTELLER . . . Mailer gives us our clearest, deepest view of Oswald yet. . . . Inside three pages you are utterly absorbed." --Detroit Free Press "MAILER AT HIS BEST . . . LIVELY AND CONVINCING . . . EXTREMELY LUCID . . . Mailer is fierce, courageous, and reckless and nearly everything he writes has sections of headlong brilliance. . . . [He] has found a way to make the dry bones of KGB tapes and his own interviews stand up and perform. . . . From the American master conjurer of dark and swirling purpose, a moving reflection." --Robert Stone The New York Review of Books "THIS IS A NARRATIVE OF TREMENDOUS ENERGY AND PANACHE; THE AUTHOR AT THE TOP OF HIS FORM." --Christopher Hitchens Financial Times "Mailer has written some pretty crazy books in his time, but this isn't one of them. Like its predecessor, Harlot's Ghost, it is the performance of an author relishing the force and reach of his own acuity." --Martin Amis The London Sunday Times |
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LibraryThing Review
Avis d'utilisateur - roblong - LibraryThingLong, rambling biography of Lee Harvey Oswald, divided half into his time in Russia, and half in America in the runup to the JFK assassination. The Russian material is more interesting, in the ... Consulter l'avis complet
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Avis d'utilisateur - AliceAnna - LibraryThingA really good book. I've never really read any of the conspiracy stuff, but this book gave me a good anti-paranoid basis on Oswald's involvement. Nobody knows what happened, of course, but whatever ... Consulter l'avis complet
Table des matières
Oswald in Moscow | 39 |
Oswalds Work Oswalds Sweetheart | 67 |
Marinas Friends Marinas Loves | 135 |
Courtship and Marriage | 165 |
A Commencement of the Long Voyage Home | 195 |
Appendix | 198 |
Fatherhood and Motherhood | 241 |
In the Anteroom of History | 297 |
Charity in Fort Worth | 415 |
Dark Days in Dallas | 447 |
The Big Easy | 527 |
Protagonists and Provocateurs | 605 |
Denouement | 643 |
The Amateur Hit Man | 731 |
Oswalds Ghost | 759 |
Glossary of Names xv | xv |
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