The Body Artist - by Don Delillo (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>From the award-winning, bestselling author of "White Noise" and "Underworld" comes a spare, seductive, novel about marriage, loneliness, and the nature of creativity. Widow Lauren Hardke encounters a strange man possessed of knowledge of her life, and accompanies him on an extraordinary exploration of time, love, and human perception.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>A stunning novel by the bestselling National Book Award-winning author of <i>White Noise</i> and <i>Underworld</i>.</b> <p/>Since the publication of his first novel <i>Americana, </i> Don DeLillo has lived in the skin of our times. He has found a voice for the forgotten souls who haunt the fringes of our culture and for its larger-than-life, real-life figures. His language is defiantly, radiantly American. <p/>In <i>The Body Artist</i> 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. Together they begin a journey into the wilderness of time, love and human perception. <p/><i>The Body Artist</i> is a haunting, beautiful and profoundly moving novel from one of the finest writers of our time.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>Adam Begley <i>The New York Times Book Review</i> A metaphysical ghost story about a woman alone...intimate, spare, exquisite.<br><br>Gail Caldwell <i>The Boston Globe</i> Eerie and sometimes discomfiting...DeLillo achieves a creepily hypnotic effect with his stark, probing prose....A glimpse at the desolate landscape that all of us inhabit and where no one else is.<br><br>Joseph Tirella <i>People</i> A tightly constructed string quartet...[a] spare gem of a novel.<br><br>Malcolm Jones <i>Newsweek</i> The work of a masterful writer.<br><br>Mark Luce <i>The Atlanta Journal-Constitution</i> Dazzling, disturbing, and lyrical.<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Don DeLillo is the author of seventeen novels including <i>White Noise, Libra, Underworld, Falling Man, </i>and <i>Zero K</i>. He has won the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the PEN/Saul Bellow Award, the Jerusalem Prize for his complete body of work, and the William Dean Howells Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His story collection <i>The Angel Esmeralda</i> was a finalist for the Story Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. In 2013, DeLillo was awarded the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction, and in 2015, the National Book Foundation awarded DeLillo its Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.
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