3.3
The Body Artist A Novel
by Don DeLillo
The Body Artist opens with a breakfast scene in a rambling rented house somewhere on the New England coast. We meet Lauren Hartke, the Body Artist of the title, and her husband Rey Robles, a much older, thrice-married film-director. Through their delicate, intimate, half-complete thoughts and words DeLillo proves himself a stunningly unsentimental observer of marriage, and of the idiosyncrasies that both isolate and bind us. Rey says he's taking a drive and he does, all the way to the Manhattan apartment of his first wife. Lauren is left alone, or so she thinks . . .
'A poised, individual ghost story for the twenty-first century' Observer
'Inspiring . . . a beautiful book' Independent on Sunday
FictionLiterary
RELEASED2002
PUBLISHERPan Macmillan
LENGTH124
LANGUAGEEN
Donald Richard DeLillo (Don DeLillo) is an American novelist, playwright and essayist, DeLillo's works centers on subjects as diverse as TV, nuclear war, sports, language, performance art, the Cold War, the digital age, politics, economics, and terrorism.
3.3
The Body Artist A Novel
by Don DeLillo
The Body Artist opens with a breakfast scene in a rambling rented house somewhere on the New England coast. We meet Lauren Hartke, the Body Artist of the title, and her husband Rey Robles, a much older, thrice-married film-director. Through their delicate, intimate, half-complete thoughts and words DeLillo proves himself a stunningly unsentimental observer of marriage, and of the idiosyncrasies that both isolate and bind us. Rey says he's taking a drive and he does, all the way to the Manhattan apartment of his first wife. Lauren is left alone, or so she thinks . . .
'A poised, individual ghost story for the twenty-first century' Observer
'Inspiring . . . a beautiful book' Independent on Sunday
FictionLiterary
RELEASED2002
PUBLISHERPan Macmillan
LENGTH124
LANGUAGEEN
Donald Richard DeLillo (Don DeLillo) is an American novelist, playwright and essayist, DeLillo's works centers on subjects as diverse as TV, nuclear war, sports, language, performance art, the Cold War, the digital age, politics, economics, and terrorism.
