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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 �America [waiting] for him like an angry relative whose eyes glare in the heat.� 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. Praise for Oswald�s Tale �America�s largest mystery has found its greatest interpreter.��The Washington Post Book World �Mailer is fierce, courageous, and reckless and nearly everything he writes has sections of headlong brilliance. . . . From the American master conjurer of dark and swirling purpose, a moving reflection.��Robert Stone, The New York Review of Books �A narrative of tremendous energy and panache; the author at the top of his form.��Christopher Hitchens, Financial Times �The performance of an author relishing the force and reach of his own acuity.��Martin Amis, The Sunday Times (London) Praise for Norman Mailer �[Norman Mailer] loomed over American letters longer and larger than any other writer of his generation.��The New York Times �A writer of the greatest and most reckless talent.��The New Yorker �Mailer is indispensable, an American treasure.��The Washington Post �A devastatingly alive and original creative mind.��Life �Mailer is fierce, courageous, and reckless and nearly everything he writes has sections of headlong brilliance.��The New York Review of Books �The largest mind and imagination [in modern] American literature . . . Unlike just about every American writer since Henry James, Mailer has managed to grow and become richer in wisdom with each new book.��Chicago Tribune �Mailer is a master of his craft. His language carries you through the story like a leaf on a stream.��The Cincinnati Post From the Trade Paperback edition.