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The Body Artist

Don Delillo

Reader Score

65%

65% of readers

recommend this book

A stunning novel by the bestselling National Book Award-winning author of White Noise and Underworld.

Since the publication of his first novel Americana, Don DeLillo has lived in the skin of our times. He has found a voice for the forgotten souls who haunt the fringes of our culture and for its larger-than-life, real-life figures. His language is defiantly, radiantly American.

In The Body Artist his spare, seductive twelfth novel, he inhabits the muted world of Lauren Hartke, an artist whose work defies the limits of the body. Lauren is living on a lonely coast, in a rambling rented house, where she encounters a strange, ageless man, a man with uncanny knowledge of her own life. Together they begin a journey into the wilderness of time, love and human perception.

The Body Artist is a haunting, beautiful and profoundly moving novel from one of the finest writers of our time.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Scribner Book Company
  • Publish Date: Feb 5th, 2002
  • Pages: 128
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 7.96in - 5.26in - 0.30in - 0.32lb
  • EAN: 9780743203968
  • Categories: • Literary

About the Author

Delillo, Don: - Don DeLillo is the author of seventeen novels including White Noise, which was made into a Netflix film, Libra, Underworld, Falling Man, and Zero K. He has won the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the PEN/Saul Bellow Award, the Jerusalem Prize for his complete body of work, and the William Dean Howells Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His story collection The Angel Esmeralda was a finalist for the Story Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. In 2013, DeLillo was awarded the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction, and in 2015, the National Book Foundation awarded DeLillo its Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.

Praise for this book

Malcolm Jones Newsweek The work of a masterful writer.
Adam Begley The New York Times Book Review A metaphysical ghost story about a woman alone...intimate, spare, exquisite.
Mark Luce The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Dazzling, disturbing, and lyrical.
Gail Caldwell The Boston Globe Eerie and sometimes discomfiting...DeLillo achieves a creepily hypnotic effect with his stark, probing prose....A glimpse at the desolate landscape that all of us inhabit and where no one else is.
Joseph Tirella People A tightly constructed string quartet...[a] spare gem of a novel.