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Oswald's Tale: an American mystery 9 editions

Cover of: Oswald's Tale by Norman Mailer
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"MARVELOUS . . . BREATHTAKING."--The New York Times Book Review"MAILER SHINES . . . Explaining Kennedy's assassination through the flaws in Oswald's character has been attempted before, notably by Gerald Posner in Case Closed and Don Delillo in Libra. But neither handled Oswald with the kind of dexterity and literary imagination that Mailer here supplies in great force. . . . Oswald's Tale weaves a story not only about Oswald or Kennedy's death but about the culture surrounding the assassination, one that remains replete with miscomprehensions, unraveled threads and lack of resolution: All of which makes Oswald's Tale more true-to-life than any fact-driven treatise could hope to be. . . . Vintage Mailer."--The Philadelphia Inquirer"FASCINATING . . . A MASTER STORYTELLER . . . Mailer gives us our clearest, deepest view of Oswald yet. . . . Inside three pages you are utterly absorbed."--Detroit Free Press"MAILER AT HIS BEST . . . LIVELY AND CONVINCING . . . EXTREMELY LUCID . . . Mailer is fierce, courageous, and reckless and nearly everything he writes has sections of headlong brilliance. . . . [He] has found a way to make the dry bones of KGB tapes and his own interviews stand up and perform. . . . From the American master conjurer of dark and swirling purpose, a moving reflection."--Robert Stone The New York Review of Books"THIS IS A NARRATIVE OF TREMENDOUS ENERGY AND PANACHE; THE AUTHOR AT THE TOP OF HIS FORM."--Christopher Hitchens Financial Times"Mailer has written some pretty crazy books in his time, but this isn't one of them. Like its predecessor, Harlot's Ghost, it is the performance of an author relishing the force and reach of his own acuity."--Martin Amis The London Sunday TimesFrom the Trade Paperback edition.

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2007, Random House Trade Paperbacks
Oswald's tale
in English - Random House trade pbk. ed.
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January 23, 2007, Random House Trade Paperbacks
Oswald's Tale
Paperback in English
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June 16, 1996, Random House Value Publishing
Oswald's Tale
Hardcover in English
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November 25, 1997, Random House Value Publishing
Oswald's Tale
Hardcover in English
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1995, Random House
Oswald's tale
in English - 1st trade ed.
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1995, Franklin Library
Oswald's tale
in English - 1st ed.
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1995, Little, Brown and Company
Oswald's tale
in English
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1995, Random House, 1995
Oswald's Tale
Hardcover
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2007, Random House Publishing Group
Oswald's Tale
E-book in English

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