Exalting a nobody Norman Mailer's sprawling attempt to transform Lee harvey Oswald into a figure equal to the Great Crime

The Boston Globe | May 21, 1995| | Copyright

OSWALD'S TALE

An American Mystery.

By Norman Mailer. Random House. 791 pp. $30.

Gail Caldwell is chief book critic of the Globe.

When one ponders the bulk of "Oswald's Tale" -- some 3 1/2 pounds in bound galleys, and more than 300,000 words -- the inevitable question, of course, is: Why? Why would Norman Mailer, the pugnacious Brando of American letters, choose to get in the ring with the pale assassin? About whom more has already been written than any assassin in history? The reason (this being Mailer, after all) is both literary and grandiose. The man has spent much of his ...

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