The Body Artist by Don Delillo
A stunning, spare novel by the bestselling, award-winning author of White Noise and Underworld.
DeLillo moves from one extreme to the other with his new novelWhereas his last book Underworld was a densely woven, 900-page American epic spanning the entire period of the Cold War, The Body Artist is sparse, sharply focused and weighs in at a slim-line 150 pages. Whether it's a reaction to the critics who perceived Underworld as overlong or a realisation that he covered all the "big" themes in his previous work, DeLillo admirably refuses to retread the past. What we have instead is a portrait of an upper middle-class, East Coast marriage disintegrating into the husband's suicide and the wife's attempts to understand their relationship. The economy of the writing proves to be deceptively simplistic and the underlying theme of man's relationship with time is effectively explored. This may disappoint some new readers (indeed, many were disappointed by Underworld), but the full hardback price suggests that only hardcore DeLillo enthusiasts will pay the cost of admission.
Don DeLillo is the author of many bestselling novels, including Point Omega, Falling Man, White Noise, Libra and Zero K, and has won many honours in America and abroad, including the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the Jerusalem Prize for his complete body of work and the William Dean Howells Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters for his novel Underworld. In 2010, he received the PEN/Saul Bellow Award. He has also written several plays.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780330484954 |
| ISBN 10 | 0330484958 |
| Title | The Body Artist |
| Author | Don Delillo |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Pan Macmillan |
| Year published | 2001-02-23 |
| Number of pages | 192 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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