The Body Artist
23 September 2011Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
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.
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Details
23 September 2011320 pages
9780330473989Imprint: Picador
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
