The Body Artist » (Reprint)

Flooring readers with his complex, intelligent evocations of modern-day America and the philosophical challenges of living in it, Don DeLillo swiftly established himself as an important writer. His wide-ranging, somewhat strange novels go less for the emotions than for the reader's very interpretations of reality.

In this spare, seductive novel, Don DeLillo inhabits the muted world of Lauren Hartke, an artist whose work defies the limits of the body. She lives in a rented rambling house on a lonely coast. There she encounters a strange, ageless man with uncanny knowledge of her life.

Washington Post Book World

This novel by an American master can be read in a single sitting. But you should probably allow time to ponder the precision of his prose and the depth of his understanding.