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. She is soon to discover, however, that there is a stranger in the house. An eery individual who often speaks in Rey's voice or in her own, who knows both intimate moments of their past life and things that haven't yet happened. "A novel that is both slight and profound, a distilled meditation on perception and loss, and a poised, individual ghost story for the twenty-first century" - "Observer". "A masterful talent is behind its language, so magnificent in simplicity. Inspiring. God, but it's a beautiful book" - "Independent on Sunday".

唐·德里罗Don Delillo(1936— ) 美国著名后现代小说家，出生于纽约意大利移民家庭。大学毕业后，他曾在奥美广告公司做过五年广告文案。自1971年出版第一部小说《美国的传说》以来，德里罗已出版十余部长篇小说和四本剧作，发表诸多短篇小说和散文，代表作品包括《白噪音》、《地下世界》、《名字》、《天秤星座》等。他曾获得美国全国图书奖、福克纳笔会奖、耶路撒冷奖等众多奖项，被认为是四位同时代最重要的美国作家之一。

德里罗的创作题材十分广泛，多数作品以反映后工业时代的美国社会和生活为主，尤为关注美国的大众媒体、消费文化、意识形态等对人的行为、思想、心理和情感等各方面的影响。