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·德裏羅Don Delillo(1936— ) 美國著名後現代小說傢，齣生於紐約意大利移民傢庭。大學畢業後，他曾在奧美廣告公司做過五年廣告文案。自1971年齣版第一部小說《美國的傳說》以來，德裏羅已齣版十餘部長篇小說和四本劇作，發錶諸多短篇小說和散文，代錶作品包括《白噪音》、《地下世界》、《名字》、《天秤星座》等。他曾獲得美國全國圖書奬、福剋納筆會奬、耶路撒冷奬等眾多奬項，被認為是四位同時代最重要的美國作傢之一。

德裏羅的創作題材十分廣泛，多數作品以反映後工業時代的美國社會和生活為主，尤為關注美國的大眾媒體、消費文化、意識形態等對人的行為、思想、心理和情感等各方麵的影響。