Oswald's Tale: An American Mystery by Mailer, Norman

ISBN: 0345404378

Author: Mailer, Norman

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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 Mailers 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.Praise for Oswalds TaleAmericas largest mystery has found its greatest interpreter.-The Washington Post Book WorldMailer 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.-Robert Stone, The New York Review of BooksA narrative of tremendous energy and panache; the author at the top of his form.-Christopher Hitchens, Financial TimesThe performance of an author relishing the force and reach of his own acuity.-Martin Amis, The Sunday Times (London)Praise for Norman Mailer[Norman Mailer] loomed over American letters longer and larger than any other writer of his generation.-The New York TimesA writer of the greatest and most reckless talent.-The New YorkerMailer is indispensable, an American treasure.-The Washington PostA devastatingly alive and original creative mind.-LifeMailer is fierce, courageous, and reckless and nearly everything he writes has sections of headlong brilliance.-The New York Review of BooksThe 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.-Chicago TribuneMailer is a master of his craft. His language carries you through the story like a leaf on a stream.-The Cincinnati Post