The Body Artist

'A novel that is both slight and profound, a distilled meditation on perception and loss, and a poised, individual ghost story for the twenty-first century' Observer The Body Artist 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, 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. 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 expose 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. 'A masterly portrait of the impact of death on those who live' Evening Standard

ISBN 033052495X   DEWEY edition DC22 ISBN13 9780330524957 (What's this?)   Pages 128 Publisher Pan Macmillan   Published in London Imprint Picador   Previous ISBN 9780330484961 Format Paperback   Height (mm) 197 Publication date 04 Mar 2011   Width (mm) 130 DEWEY 813.54   Academic level General

Adam Begley "The New York Times Book Review" A metaphysical ghost story about a woman alone....Intimate, spare, exquisite.

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