The Body Artist - Rilegato

DeLillo, Don

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0330484958 ISBN 13: 9780330484954

Casa editrice: Picador, 2001

Riassunto

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 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, where he shoots himself. Lauren is left alone, or so she thinks. She is soon to discover, however, that there is a stranger in the house. An eerily gifted individual who often speaks in Rey's voice or in her own, who knows both intimate moments of their past life and things that haven't yet happened. A lean, sad, beautiful novel, The Body Artist is pure DeLillo.

Su questo libro

Descrizione del libro:

A stunning, spare novel by the bestselling, award-winning author of White Noise and Underworld.

L'autore:

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.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Picador
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0330484958
• ISBN 13: 9780330484954
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 192