The Body Artist
by Don DeLillo
Scribner
(126 pages)
Keyword(s): Literary fiction
Dates read: June 06, 2002,
Rating:
This is DeLillo's most bizarre offering to date. The paragraph-level writing is superb, as usual, but the novella as a whole does not hold together that well. It is dark and haunting and poetic, but in my opinion it favors style over substance. I really didn't care much for it.

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