One character in this novel carries a scrap of paper reading "They whirl asunder and dismember me," aslight misquotation of Blanch of Spain's speech from King John. This novel begins with its protagonistobserving the underclass of subway workers as he rides a line from end to end. This novel, which revisitsthe author's Rolling Stone article "American Blood," takes a metafictional twist with the appearance of thearchivist Nicholas Branch. At its end, Marguerite and Marina are prevented from seeing footage of thedeath of their relative, a defector to the USSR who becomes involved in a plot to start a war with Cuba. For10 points, name this novel that speculates on the J
One character in this novel carries a scrap of paper reading "They whirl asunder and dismember me," aslight misquotation of Blanch of Spain's speech from King John. This novel begins with its protagonistobserving the underclass of subway workers as he rides a line from end to end. This novel, which revisitsthe author's Rolling Stone article "American Blood," takes a metafictional twist with the appearance of thearchivist Nicholas Branch. At its end, Marguerite and Marina are prevented from seeing footage of thedeath of their relative, a defector to the USSR who becomes involved in a plot to start a war with Cuba. For10 points, name this novel that speculates on the John F. Kennedy assassination, a DeLillo book named forLee Harvey Oswald's astrological sign.
One character in this novel carries a scrap of paper reading "They whirl asunder and dismember me," aslight misquotation of Blanch of Spain's speech from King John.
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