Body Artist (eBook)

DON DELILLO (Autor)

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2011 | 1. Auflage
320 Seiten
Pan Macmillan (Verlag)
978-0-330-47398-9 (ISBN)

Infos

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

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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 expose 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 23.9.2011
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
• ISBN-10: 0-330-47398-0 / 0330473980
• ISBN-13: 978-0-330-47398-9 / 9780330473989