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The Body Artist is a novella written in 2001 by Don DeLillo. It explores the grieving process of a young performance artist, Lauren Hartke, following the suicide of her significantly older husband.
- Don DeLillo
- 128 (hardback first edition)
- 2001
- 6 Feb 2001
Feb 5, 2002 · Paperback – February 5, 2002. by Don DeLillo (Author) 3.9 272 ratings. See all formats and editions. 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.
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- Don DeLillo
- $9.69
- Scribner
The Body Artist is a slim volume, but it attempts to cover broad topics, such as perceptions of time, the process of memory and coping with death. These three areas all concern intensely...
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Feb 6, 2001 · Together they begin a journey into the wilderness of time -- time, love and human perception. As the Seattle Times said of DeLillo's last novel, "Masterpieces teach you how to read them." The Body Artist is a haunting, beautiful and profoundly moving novel from one of the finest writers of our time. Read more.
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The Body Artist: A Novel. Don DeLillo. Simon and Schuster, Apr 7, 2001 - Fiction - 128 pages. A stunning novel by the bestselling National Book Award–winning author of White Noise and...
Apr 7, 2001 · The Body Artist: A Novel Kindle Edition. by Don DeLillo (Author) Format: Kindle Edition. 3.9 273 ratings. See all formats and editions. 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.
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.
