Before this life-changing move, however, Oswald enlisted in the Marine Corps at seventeen years old. DeLillo focuses heavily on Oswald’s childhood and, later, his defection to the USSR. Cover for Libra.Īs an antisocial child who spent most of his youth being shuffled around and, ultimately, deemed a truant by the school system, Oswald grew up without a father figure and was prone to a fantastical imagination. Although most of the life events DeLillo covers in Oswald’s timeline are based on factual occurrences, it is his fictionalized account that makes the famed assassin come across as more human. Speculating on the events that led Lee Oswald to the assassination of JFK on November 22, 1963, Libra is the closest one can get to having any sympathy for Oswald, a lost, hopeless soul doomed to dissatisfaction and misery. Libra, one of the lesser appreciated works of Don DeLillo, came out in 1988–twenty-five years after John F.
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