The Body Artist - Brossura

DeLillo, Don

Brossura

ISBN 10: 033052495X ISBN 13: 9780330524957

Casa editrice: Pan Macmillan, 2011

Riassunto

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.

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Recensione:

America's greatest living writer. (Observer)

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)

A masterly portrait of the impact of death on those who live. (Evening Standard)

Descrizione del libro:

A sad, beautiful novel, The Body Artist is an elliptical meditiation on the mysteries of love, life and time.

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• Editore: Pan Macmillan
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 033052495X
• ISBN 13: 9780330524957
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 144