The Body Artist
- Author Don DeLillo
- Narrator Laurie Anderson
- Publisher Pan Macmillan
- Run Time 2 hours and 56 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Contemporary horror and ghost stories, Family life fiction, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, Narrative theme: Love and relationships.
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What to expect
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, 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.
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.
Critics Review
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America’s greatest living writer.
Observer -
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 -
A masterly portrait of the impact of death on those who live.
Evening Standard
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