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Body Artist

by Don Delillo

ISBN: 074320395X
ISBN-13: 9780743203951
Format: Hardcover

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: 0.6 pounds
Pages: 124

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. 150,000 first printing. BOMC & QPB Alt.

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