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Body Artist
Don Delillo
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Description for Body Artist
Paperback. A sad, beautiful novel, The Body Artist is an elliptical meditiation on the mysteries of love, life and time. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 132 x 11. Weight in Grams: 128.
The Body Artist begins with normality: breakfast between a married couple, Lauren and Rey, in their ramshackle rented house on the New England coast. Recording their delicate, intimate, half-complete thoughts and words, Don DeLillo proves himself a stunningly unsentimental observer of our idiosyncratic relationships. But after breakfast, Rey makes a decision that leaves Lauren utterly alone, or seems to. As Lauren, the body artist of the title, becomes strangely detached from herself and the temporal world, the novel becomes an exploration of a highly abnormal grieving process; a fascinating expose of 'who we are when we ... Read more
The Body Artist begins with normality: breakfast between a married couple, Lauren and Rey, in their ramshackle rented house on the New England coast. Recording their delicate, intimate, half-complete thoughts and words, Don DeLillo proves himself a stunningly unsentimental observer of our idiosyncratic relationships. But after breakfast, Rey makes a decision that leaves Lauren utterly alone, or seems to. As Lauren, the body artist of the title, becomes strangely detached from herself and the temporal world, the novel becomes an exploration of a highly abnormal grieving process; a fascinating expose of 'who we are when we ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Picador
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780330524957
SKU
V9780330524957
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99-50
About Don Delillo
Don DeLillo is the acclaimed author of bestselling novels and plays. His work includes White Noise, Libra and Underworld. He has won the National Book Award, the Jerusalem Prize and the Irish Times International Fiction Prize.
Reviews for Body Artist
A masterly portrait of the impact of death on those who live.
Evening Standard
A novel that is both slight and profound, a distilled meditation on perception and loss, and a poised, individual ghost story for the twenty-first century.
Observer
America's greatest living writer.
Observer
Evening Standard
A novel that is both slight and profound, a distilled meditation on perception and loss, and a poised, individual ghost story for the twenty-first century.
Observer
America's greatest living writer.
Observer