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Oswald's Tale: An American Mystery
by Norman Mailer
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
Author-signed first edition. Volume is bound in full dark blue leather decorated in gilt, all edges gilt, with ribbon marker and a frontispiece illustration by Alan E. Cober. Book is new and still in publisher's box (7.5" x 13.25"). xxxvii/791 pages.
Norman Mailer's 1995 non-fiction book is an exhaustive examination of Oswald's movements over the years, and particularly in the months, leading up to Kennedy's assassination on November 22, 1963, and Oswald's own death two days later.
Synopsis
In perhaps his most important literary feat, Norman Mailer fashions an unprecedented portrait of one of the great villains—and enigmas—in United States history. Here is Lee Harvey Oswald—his family background, troubled marriage, controversial journey to Russia, and return to an “America -waiting- for him like an angry relative whose eyes glare in the heat.” Based on KGB and FBI transcripts, government reports, letters and diaries, and Mailer’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. (Publisher’s Summary)
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- Bookseller
- Palimpsest Scholarly Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2820
- Title
- Oswald's Tale: An American Mystery
- Author
- Norman Mailer
- Book Condition
- New New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Franklin Library
- Date Published
- 1996
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- US LIterature
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