- Oswald's Tale
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1st edition (publ. Random House)
Oswald's Tale: An American Mystery is a 1995 non-fiction book by Norman Mailer, ISBN 0-679-42535-7. It amounts to a detailed biography of Lee Harvey Oswald, the alleged assassin of US President John F. Kennedy. The book includes an exhaustive examination of his movements in the years, and particularly in the months, leading up to Kennedy's assassination on November 22, 1963, and Oswald's own death two days later. Knitted into the story of Oswald's life are Mailer's suppositions on his state of mind and motivations. The Oswald that Mailer depicts is a single-minded and vain individual convinced of his own destiny and importance who suffers a series of defeats and frustrations, and who killed the President in a desperate search for achievement.
External links
- Booknotes interview with Mailer on Oswald's Tale, June 25, 1995.
- Books Of The Times; Oswald and Mailer: The Eternal Basic Questions, New York Times review, April 25, 1995.
Works by Norman Mailer Fiction The Naked and the Dead · Barbary Shore · The Deer Park (novel) · An American Dream · The Short Fiction of Norman Mailer · Why Are We in Vietnam? · A Transit to Narcissus · Of Women and Their Elegance · Ancient Evenings · Tough Guys Don't Dance · Harlot's Ghost · The Gospel According to the Son · The Castle in the Forest
Non-fiction The White Negro · Advertisements for Myself · The Presidential Papers · Cannibals and Christians · The Bullfight · The Armies of the Night · The Idol and the Octopus · Miami and the Siege of Chicago · Of a Fire on the Moon · King of the Hill · The Prisoner of Sex · Existential Errands · St. George and The Godfather · The Faith of Graffiti · Genius and Lust · Of a Small and Modest Malignancy, Wicked and Bristling with Dots · Pieces and Pontifications · The Spooky Art · Why Are We At War?
Biography Marilyn: A Biography · The Fight · The Executioner's Song · Oswald's Tale · Portrait of Picasso as a Young Man
Other The Deer Park (play) · Deaths for the Ladies (and Other Disasters) (poetry) · Maidstone (film) · The American (film) · WILD 90 (film) · Beyond the Law (film) · Some Honorable Men (anthology) · The Time of Our Time (anthology) · Modest Gifts (poems and drawings) · The Big Empty (dialogues) · On God (conversation)
Category:Works by Norman Mailer Categories:- 1995 books
- Non-fiction books about the John F. Kennedy assassination
- Books by Norman Mailer
- Random House books
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