Oswald's Tale

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 &quote;America [waiting] for him like an angry relative whose eyes glare in the heat.&quote; 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.