The Body Artist
 

The Body Artist

by Don DeLillo

In this spare, seductive novel, Don DeLillo inhabits the muted world of Lauren Hartke, an artist whose work defies the limits of the body. She lives in a rented rambling house on a lonely coast. There she encounters a strange, ageless man with uncanny knowledge of her life. They begin a radiant journey into the wilderness of time, love, and human perception. (read review)

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mh.
  • Rated 4 stars

This afternoon at work, I started and finished The Body Artist by Don DeLillo. I've never heard of it until I saw it at Books-A-Million last week, picked it up, read a few lines, and I was sold. I was very impressed after reading it due to its sparseness, haziness, and loneliness. It reminds me of driving home after a really long night and the sun is barely coming up- there's the highway and you and fog surrounds you and it's just really quiet. Just great.

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Peach
  • Rated 1 stars

Lauren is an artist, both professionally and in her personally life. Through a form of manipulation almost like meditation, she has learned to internalize the living, the dead, and the imaginary into her body. Yet when her husband commits suicide in his ex-wife’s home, her art form is taxed to the extreme.

The beginning of this book is among my favorite passages that I’ve read so far by Delillo. Lauren shares one last breakfast with her husband Rey, and their stilted conversation...

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