Description
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 are not rehearsing who we are'; and a rarefied study of trauma and creativity, absence and presence, isolation and communion.
About the Author
Don DeLillo is the acclaimed author of bestselling novels and plays. His work includes White Noise, Libra, The Body Artist and Underworld. He has won the National Book Award, the Jerusalem Prize and the Irish Times International Fiction Prize.
Reviews
America's greatest living writer. * Observer *
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 *
A masterly portrait of the impact of death on those who live. * Evening Standard *
Book Information
ISBN 9780330524957
Author Don DeLillo
Format Paperback
Page Count 144
Imprint Picador
Publisher Pan Macmillan
Weight(grams) 104g
Dimensions(mm) 197mm * 130mm * 11mm
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