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Body Artist
Body Artist
Author: Don DeLillo
'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, intim...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780330524957
ISBN-10: 033052495X
Publication Date: 3/1/2011
Pages: 128
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Publisher: Picador USA
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Audio CD
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perryfran avatar reviewed Body Artist on + 1176 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
Not sure what to think of this one! This was a very short novel written in dense, sometimes impenetrable prose. I didn't really care too much for the characters and whether or not "Mr. Tuttle" was real, imagined, or Rey reincarnate. Overall, for a short novel, too many words and not enough plot.
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Helpful Score: 1
I liked this book for the very reason that the author's writing caused me to stretch my concept of reality and shape it around a different setting.
therubycanary avatar reviewed Body Artist on + 44 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
This was interesting, although I wouldn't call it the "profoundly moving" novel that the cover review claims. Lauren was a very interesting character though.
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luvbooks avatar reviewed Body Artist on + 126 more book reviews
This novel tells the story of an artist in the days following the suicide of her husband. Finishing out the lease of a rented house on the coast, Lauren discovers a mysterious man in the upstairs bedroom who verbatim can repeat conversations she and her husband had before his death. He does not seem to know his own name or where he came from. Is he real or a figment of her imagination? The book is a short 125 pages but illustrates the eerie and disturbing symbolisms in life.
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This is a very quick read, but one that sticks for awhile. This was my first DeLillo and while I don't feel like I always "got" it, the feeling of the book is remarkable.
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Spare and haunting from master novelist DeLillo.


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