num_pages: 192
description: "The Body Artist" opens with a breakfast scene in a rambling rented house somewhere on the New England coast. We meet Lauren Hartke, the Body Artist of the title, and her husband Rey Robles, a much older, thrice-married film-director. Through their delicate, intimate, half-complete thoughts and words DeLillo proves himself a stunningly unsentimental observer of marriage, and of the idiosyncrasies that both isolate and bind us. Rey says he's taking a drive and he does, all the way to the Manhattan apartment of his first wife. Lauren is left alone, or so she thinks...'A poised, individual ghost story for the twenty-first century' - "Observer". 'Inspiring ...a beautiful book' - "Independent on Sunday".
language: English
title: The Body Artist
titlecomplete: The Body Artist
genres: American, Art, Novella, 21st Century, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, The United States Of America, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 10931
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: James Tait Black Memorial Prize
category: Fiction
publisher: Picador