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Body Artist
by Don Delillo
ISBN: 0743212215
ISBN-13: 9780743212212
Format: Hardcover
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Summary
After her husband's devastating suicide, a performance artist named Lauren Hartke becomes obsessed with her vacation house, which seems to be haunted. Delillo's 124-page novella-much shorter than his usual weighty novels-is enigmatic and slightly mysterious, exploring the resolutely closed and inner world of a woman who is trying to survive. A New York Times Notable Book for 2001.
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"[A] dark, elliptical tone poem....What remains most interesting about this modest, imperfect novel is its fascination with the emotional life of its heroine-a focus on the personal that extends the sympathetic attention to character first evinced in UNDERWORLD, and points, in the future perhaps, to an exciting new vein in Mr. DeLillo's already remarkable body of work." -- Michiko Kakutani
-- New York Times
"[A] meditative tangle that's both hypnotic and boring....Despite all this busy musing on the flow of time and memory, any real provocation to thought is lost in the haze of DeLillo's atmospherics." -- Troy Patterson
-- Entertainment Weekly
"[T]his is DeLillo with the politics left out, without conspiracies and secret histories, with no bomb and no environment-no world situation-to worry over. He hasn't tried to outdo himself, and indeed this short novel...feels almost uncharacteristically unAmerican in its shrewd and purposeful modesty." -- Michael Gorra
-- Times Literary Supplement
"If you haven't yet woken up to the beauty of Don DeLillo's sentences, here's your chance. His new novel is a tiny, intimate affair, quiet, spare and strange-but not so strange as to distract from the glories of the chiseled prose." -- Adam Begley
-- New York Times Book Review
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published date: 2001
Size: 5.75 x 8.75 inches
Weight: 0.65 pounds
Pages: 159
Publisher's Notes
A twelfth novel by the author of Underworld places readers in the world of artist Lauren Hartke, who meets near her rented coastal house a strange, ageless man with an uncanny knowledge of Lauren's life. (General Fiction)
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The Body Artist (Large Print)
Delillo, Don
Old Tappan, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Scribner, 2001. Hard Cover. Good. Very Good in Very Good jacket Ex-Library. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall.. ( more information) Offered by Prairie Wind Books Div. PLF Inc. (United States)
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Simon & Schuster. Used - Like New. Condition: Near new: unread (may have publisher's mark or minor shelfwear).; bkcsd ( more information) Offered by Magers and Quinn Booksellers (United States)
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Simon & Schuster. Used - Like New. Condition: Near new: unread (may have publisher's mark or minor shelfwear).; bkcs ( more information) Offered by Magers and Quinn Booksellers (United States)
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DeLillo, Don
Ex-library hardcover with mylar dust jacket. Library stickers but inside crisp and clean. Very nice. Ships USPS with free delivery confirmation and e-mail confirmation when shipped. Arrives bubble wrapped. Thank you for looking ( more information) Offered by Bobbis Bookstore (United States)
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DeLillo, Don
Scribner, 2001. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 1st printing, large print edition. DJ like new, quarter cloth binding, minimal wear. Text clean and tight, no creases or tears. ( more information) Offered by KnC Books (United States)
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THE BODY ARTIST (Large Print Edition)
DeLillo, Don
NY, Scribners, 2001, 2001. AS NEW in like dust jacket. LARGE PRINT EDITION. 8vo, hardcover, 157pp. (Fiction) ** We pack carefully & ship promptly.**. ISBN: 0743212215. 1st Edition. Hardcover. As New/Dust Jacket Included. ( more information) Offered by Chestnut Street Books (United States)
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DeLillo, Don
Scribner; NY, NY, 2001. LARGE PRINT EDITION . Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Very Good/Very Good reading copy condition, former library, clean text, sound binding. LARGE PRINT EDITION/UNABRIDGED/COMPLETE. 2 ISBN: 0743212215. ( more information) Offered by Snooty Literary Society (United States)
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The Body Artist [LARGE PRINT]
DeLillo, Don
Scribner, 2001. LARGE PRINT. Hardcover with DJ. VG/VG, former library, cover and text are very clean, sound binding. Large Print Edition. DeLillo tells the hallucinatory tale of performance artist Lauren Hartke in the days following the suicide of her husband, filmmaker Rey Robles. Finishing out their lease of a rented house on the coast, living in a self-imposed exile, Lauren discovers a mysterious man in the bedroom upstairs who is able to repeat--verbatim--entire conversations she had with her husband before his death but does not seem to know his own name or where he came from. LARGE PRINT::Fiction ISBN: 0743212215. ( more information) Offered by Mihaly's Rare Books (United States)
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The Body Artist [LARGE PRINT]
Delillo, Don
Scribner, 2001. LARGE PRINT Edition. Hardcover with DJ. Very Good/Very Good, former library, text is exceptionally clean and bright. Large Print Edition. LARGE PRINT. DeLillo tells the hallucinatory tale of performance artist Lauren Hartke in the days following the suicide of her husband, filmmaker Rey Robles. Finishing out their lease of a rented house on the coast, living in a self-imposed exile, Lauren discovers a mysterious man in the bedroom upstairs who is able to repeat--verbatim--entire conversations she had with her husband before his death but does not seem to know his own name or where he came from. LARGE PRINT::Fiction ISBN: 0743212215. ( more information) Offered by Mihaly's Rare Books (United States)
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The Body Artist [LARGE PRINT]
DeLillo, Don
Scribner, 2001. LARGE PRINT. Hardcover with DJ. VG/VG, former library, cover and text are very clean, sound binding. Large Print Edition. DeLillo tells the hallucinatory tale of performance artist Lauren Hartke in the days following the suicide of her husband, filmmaker Rey Robles. Finishing out their lease of a rented house on the coast, living in a self-imposed exile, Lauren discovers a mysterious man in the bedroom upstairs who is able to repeat--verbatim--entire conversations she had with her husband before his death but does not seem to know his own name or where he came from. LARGE PRINT::Fiction ISBN: 0743212215. ( more information) Offered by Mihaly's Rare Books (United States)
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DeLillo, Don
Scribner. Hardcover. 0743212215 New with very slight shelf wear from time on shelf (like you'd see at a major chain). We ship daily, provide personalized customer service and want you to have a great experience purchasing from us. Thank you for your consideration. . New. ( more information) Offered by BennettBooksLtd (United States)
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