by Don DeLillo
480 Pages
Penguin
$15
"The
metaphysical treatise on the assassination of John F. Kennedy, largely seen through the eyes of the most eloquently persistent loser in American historical fiction: Lee Harvey Oswald. DeLillo posits a tripartite whack-JFK conspiracy: the Mob, right-wing Cuban exiles, and renegade CIA contract goons. This is not Jack’s death as watershed American doom or loss-of-innocence hoo-haw. This is the Jack-whack as the world’s most overscrutinized and overglorified business-dispute killing. And you’ll root for the assassins—DeLillo details their rationales that adroitly."—Ellroy