The Body Artist

First edition. 8vo. Pp. 124, [3]. Black quarter cloth over cream-coloured boards, with the title stamped in gilt on the spine. Jacket design by Carol Devine Carson, featuring a detail of Caravaggio's The Musicians (c. 1595).

Signed by DeLillo to title page, as opposed to a number of unspecified copies issued with the author's signature on a tipped-in leaf. A scarce signed copy thus.

His twelfth novel. A 2001 New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Shortlisted for the 2001 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction. A spare, haunting novel, of the grieving process of a young performance artist after her husband's suicide. Recipient of the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize, the Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Jerusalem Prize for his complete body of work. "DeLillo's most affecting novel yet. A dazzling, phosphorescent work of art." –Michiko Kakutani, New York Times