The Body Artist
A Novel
$21.29
- Paperback
144 pages
- Release Date
18 February 2011
Summary
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, 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 …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780330524957 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 033052495X |
| Author: | Don DeLillo |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan |
| Imprint: | Picador |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 144 |
| Release Date: | 18 February 2011 |
| Weight: | 104g |
| Dimensions: | 11mm x 130mm x 197mm |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
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America’s greatest living writer.
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 *
Don DeLillo
Don DeLillo is the acclaimed author of fifteen novels and three plays. He has won the National Book Award, the Jerusalem Prize and the Irish Times International Fiction Prize.
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