Don DeLillo - The Body Artist

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by arkhaine

The Body Artist

Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jan 14, 2007
Pros: Allows the reader stimulus for thought
Cons: Deliberately obtuse

Summary: This slim novel opens with an ordinary morning between a recently married couple. It is told from the point of view of the female, avant garde artist Lauren Handtke. The couple's morning is disjointed, stilted, yet routine. There is a lot that could ... read more
by kskopitz

Short and dull

Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Oct 2, 2001
Pros: Short
Cons: Boring

Summary: DeLillo is the literary set's golden boy these days, and I guess I should try to hunt up a nametag marked 'redneck,' 'cause I just don't get it. I read Underworld. Heck, I looked forward to reading Underworld--and what an overwritten ball of a book ... read more
by hroeder

Intriguing new offering

Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Feb 8, 2001
Pros: Dom Delillo.
Cons: A minor book, maybe. Or one to ponder.

Summary: The Underworld took ages to read, The Body Artist can be done in an evening. So there's a big difference in the two books. Delillo is, perhaps, one of our major writers. Certainly he shed more light on the assassination of Kennedy than any other ... read more
by Grouch

Don DeLillo Goes From Opera to Unplugged Solo

Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Feb 4, 2001
Pros: The language is vibrant and rich as DeLillo pokes and prods words into new patterns.
Cons: Too sparse and anemic for the $22.00 cover price

Summary: Readers bowled over by novelist Don DeLillo�s previous grand-slam Underworld might be disappointed by his latest, waif-like work, The Body Artist. Underworld was big in the way a Cecil B. DeMille movie was big. Jam-packed ... read more

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