Praise for Libra Finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction [DeLillo's] richest novel . . . It's in commonplace moments that [he] reveals his genius . . . a triumph.
–Anne Tyler, The New York Times Much of DeLillo's earlier fiction now seems a brilliant prelude to [this novel]
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Libra displays his genius for creative paranoia: he fills the gaps in the record with his imagination, spinning a brilliant web out of a heap of improbable coincidences.
–London Review of Books [
Libra] is like a stop-motion frame of the crossfire, a still picture of an awful moment . . . DeLillo's prose has a quality of demented lyricism.
–The New Yorker Extraordinary intensity . . . unforgiving thoroughness . . . DeLillo has created a thriller of the most profound sort . . .
Libra is electrifying, a book alive with suggestion.
–Chicago TribuneLibra operates at a dizzyingly high level of intensity throughout; it's that true fictional rarity–a novel of admirable depth and relevance that's also a terrific page-turner.
–USA Today
