by NormanMailer (Author)
A work of meticulous research and breathtaking insight, Oswald's Tale: An American Mystery asks the essential question about the Kennedy Assassination: Who was Lee Harvey Oswald? Providing the first full account of his childhood, the years under KGB surveillance in Russia and the events from his return to the United States in 1961 to his death in Dallas. Norman Mailer brilliantly reconstructs the life of this ambitious, doom-laden young man, bringing to the task not only a sober respect for the facts but the power, as America's most distinguished novelist. To invest those facts with vibrant and haunting life.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 848
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Abacus
Published: 03 Oct 1996
ISBN 10: 0349106819
ISBN 13: 9780349106816
Book Overview: 'A huge, sprawling, deeply intelligent epic' - Observer