The Body Artist
Author: Don DeLillo
A ghost story that opens with a breakfast scene in a rambling rented house somewhere on the New England coast. It lets us meet Lauren Hartke, the Body Artist, and her husband Rey Robles, a much older, thrice-married film-director…..Read More
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