Description
| Product ID: | 9780330524957 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Body Artist |
| Authors: | Author: Don DeLillo |
| Page Count: | 144 |
| Subjects: | Stationery and miscellaneous items, Miscellaneous items |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating A sad, beautiful novel, The Body Artist is an elliptical meditation on the mysteries of love, life and time. <p><i>The Body Artist</i> 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, Don 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.<br><br> 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 exposé 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.</p> |
| Imprint Name: | Picador |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2011-03-04 |
