Oswald's Tale: An American Mystery

Oswald's Tale: An American Mystery

In perhaps his most important literary feat, Norman Mailer fashions an unprecedented portrait of one of the great villainsâ€”and enigmasâ€”in United States history. Here is Lee Harvey Oswaldâ€”his family background, troubled marriage, controversial journey to Russia, and return to an â€œAmerica [waiting] for him like an angry relative whose eyes glare in the heat.â€ Based on KGB and FBI transcripts, government reports, letters and diaries, and Mailerâ€™s own international research, this is an epic account of a man whose cunning, duplicity, and self-invention were both at home in and at odds with the country he forever altered.
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Praise for Oswaldâ€™s Tale
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â€œAmericaâ€™s largest mystery has found its greatest interpreter.â€â€”The Washington Post Book World
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â€œMailer is fierce, courageous, and reckless and nearly everything he writes has sections of headlong brilliance. . . . From the American master conjurer of dark and swirling purpose, a moving reflection.â€â€”Robert Stone, The New York Review of Books
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â€œA narrative of tremendous energy and panache; the author at the top of his form.â€â€”Christopher Hitchens, Financial Times
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â€œThe performance of an author relishing the force and reach of his own acuity.â€â€”Martin Amis, The Sunday Times (London)
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Praise for Norman Mailer
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â€œ[Norman Mailer] loomed over American letters longer and larger than any other writer of his generation.â€â€”The New York Times
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â€œA writer of the greatest and most reckless talent.â€â€”The New Yorker
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â€œMailer is indispensable, an American treasure.â€â€”The Washington Post
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â€œA devastatingly alive and original creative mind.â€â€”Life
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â€œMailer is fierce, courageous, and reckless and nearly everything he writes has sections of headlong brilliance.â€â€”The New York Review of Books
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â€œThe largest mind and imagination [in modern] American literature . . . Unlike just about every American writer since Henry James, Mailer has managed to grow and become richer in wisdom with each new book.â€â€”Chicago Tribune
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â€œMailer is a master of his craft. His language carries you through the story like a leaf on a stream.â€â€”The Cincinnati Post
Country USA
Brand Random House Trade Paperbacks
Manufacturer Random House Trade Paperbacks
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 0345404378_used
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 1996-06-25
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780345404374

Country	USA
Brand	Random House Trade Paperbacks
Manufacturer	Random House Trade Paperbacks
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	0345404378_used
Color	Multicolor
ReleaseDate	1996-06-25
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780345404374

Oswald's Tale: An American Mystery

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