Oswald's Tale: An American Mystery

Second Printing [U.K. Trade Edition]. Thick 8vo. Pp. [xvi], 791, [1], xxxvii, [3], appendix, glossary of names, acknowledgments, notes, bibliography, index. Black cloth lettered in deep purple to spine; black endpapers.

Based on KGB and FBI transcripts, government reports, letters and diaries, and Mailer's own research, this is a thorough, insightful analysis of Kennedy's assassin. Author gives a full account of the Minsk years, a hitherto uncharted period of Oswald's life. Two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for The Armies of the Night (1968), and The Executioner's Song (1979). "Breathtaking in ambition... distinguished by a brilliant linguistic invention." –New York Times