conspiracy? What if agency operatives, disgusted by the Bay of Pigs debacle and alarmed at signs of growing rapprochement between Kennedy and Castro, schemed to stage an unsuccessful attempt on DeLillo asks, the assassination was a C.I.A. Slant forward from distant sources to be channeled into a single moment in history: six seconds in Dallas on Nov. It is also his most complicated, with a dual slate of characters and a plot line that might be described as herringbone-shaped. These three subjects come together in ''Libra,'' his latest and richest novel. Certain preoccupations, however, tend to reassert themselves: the assassination of President Kennedy, the labyrinthine underworld of spies and terrorists and (most notably in ''White Noise,'' which won theĪmerican Book Award in 1985) the pervasive effect of the modern American news media. His central character may be a rock music star or a child math genius his setting may be a remote Aegean island or a college footballįield. $19.95.ĭon DeLillo has produced nine novels in the past 17 years, and by now his admirers have learned to expect almost anything. Section 7, Column 1 Book Review Deskīy ANNE TYLER Anne Tyler's 11th novel, ''Breathing Lessons,'' will be published in September. July 24, 1988, Sunday, Late City Final Edition
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