{"product_id":"the-body-artist-9780743203968","title":"The Body Artist","description":"\u003cb\u003eA stunning novel by the bestselling National Book Award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eWhite Noise\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eUnderworld\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSince the publication of his first novel \u003ci\u003eAmericana, \u003c\/i\u003e Don DeLillo has lived in the skin of our times. He has found a voice for the forgotten souls who haunt the fringes of our culture and for its larger-than-life, real-life figures. His language is defiantly, radiantly American. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Body Artist\u003c\/i\u003e his spare, seductive twelfth novel, he inhabits the muted world of Lauren Hartke, an artist whose work defies the limits of the body. Lauren is living on a lonely coast, in a rambling rented house, where she encounters a strange, ageless man, a man with uncanny knowledge of her own life. Together they begin a journey into the wilderness of time, love and human perception. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Body Artist\u003c\/i\u003e is a haunting, beautiful and profoundly moving novel from one of the finest writers of our time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDon DeLillo is the author of seventeen novels including \u003ci\u003eWhite Noise\u003c\/i\u003e, which was made into a Netflix film, \u003ci\u003eLibra\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eUnderworld\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFalling Man\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eZero K\u003c\/i\u003e. He has 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. His story collection \u003ci\u003eThe Angel Esmeralda\u003c\/i\u003e was a finalist for the Story Prize and the PEN\/Faulkner Award for Fiction. In 2013, DeLillo 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.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Scribner Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50726154993938,"sku":"9780743203968","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_b133f7ed-6ea6-43db-9792-b20af29b44c5.jpg?v=1734855611","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-body-artist-9780743203968","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}