Oswald's Tale

by Mailer, Norman

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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Random House published a First Edition, First Printing hardcover in New York, 1995. 

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The Franklin Library published a First Edition, Collectable hardcover in PA, 1995. The edition is characterized by gold gilt decoration, a hubbed spine, and a silk ribbon bookmark. 

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New York, NY: Random House Inc. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1995. Hardcover. In this book, Norman Mailer asks not "Who Killed Kennedy" but "Who Was Oswald" for only by asking the latter can we hope to answer the first. In 1959 Lee Harvey Oswald defected to the Soviet Union and was sent to Minsk, where he… Read more about this item
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