Body Artist, The

Body Artist, The
Don DeLillo
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Paperback
h197 x 130mm - 128pg
4 Mar 2011 UK
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9780330524957
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'A masterly portrait of the impact of death on those who live' "Evening Standard". "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 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. '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".
Adam Begley "The New York Times Book Review" A metaphysical ghost story about a woman alone....Intimate, spare, exquisite.
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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ISBN-13: 9780330524957
Published: 4 Mar 2011
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Picador
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Format: Paperback
Height: 197mm
Width: 130mm
Pages: 128
Dewey: 813.54

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