
"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...
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2013-03-01
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Mycket tät prosa, som kanske är lite väl förtjust i sina egna metaforer. Romanen handlar om en kvinna som möter en man utan språk samtidigt som hon hanterar sorgen efter sin avlidne make. Det låter lätt intetsägande, och det tycker jag boken är också.