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“DeLillo’s most affecting novel yet...A dazzling, phosphorescent work of art.”—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
“The clearest vision yet of what it felt like to live through that day.” —Malcolm Jones, Newsweek
“A metaphysical ghost story about a woman alone…intimate, spare, exquisite.” —Adam Begley, The New York Times Book Review
“A brilliant new novel....Don DeLillo continues to think about the modern world in language and images as quizzically beautiful as any writer.” — San Francisco Chronicle
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"Oh, DeLillo, your seem to break my heart every other book, and piss me off with the ones in between. For me, it's he and Nabokov for beautiful prose. Man, Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is just an awful book. "
— Brett (5 out of 5 stars)
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“DeLillo’s most affecting novel yet…A dazzling, phosphorescent work of art.”
— New York Times -
“A metaphysical ghost story about a woman alone…intimate, spare, exquisite.”
— New York Times Book Review -
“A brilliant new novel…Don DeLillo continues to think about the modern world in language and images as quizzically beautiful as any writer.”
— San Francisco Chronicle -
“The clearest vision yet of what it felt like to live through that day.”
— Newsweek
The Body Artist Listener Reviews
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" pretty good, different than other Delillo books I've read "
— Mike, 4/21/2011 -
" Perhaps I need to go back and reread it and devote more time to it, but I don't think I entirely understood what was going on... "
— Diana, 4/10/2011 -
" Ugh. The only reason I finished the book is because it was so short. "
— John, 3/18/2011 -
" This is a very small book that I hardly recall reading. I gave this rating three stars, but I may have enjoyed it a little more than that. "
— Laurie, 2/28/2011
About Don DeLillo
Don DeLillo is the author of seventeen novels which have won the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the PEN/Saul Bellow Award, the Jerusalem Prize for his complete body of work, and the William Dean Howells Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2013 he was awarded the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction, and in 2015, the National Book Foundation awarded DeLillo its Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.
About Laurie Anderson
Emily Woo Zeller is an artist, actor, dancer, choreographer, and voice artist who has won Earphones Awards and the prestigious Audie Award for Best Narration in 2018. She began her voice-over career by voicing animation in Asia. AudioFile magazine named her one of the Best Voices of 2013 for her work in Gulp. Other awards include the 2009 Tristen Award for Best Actress as Sally Bowles in Cabaret and the 2006 Roselyn E. Schneider Prize for Creative Achievement.