For thirty years, since the publication of his first novel, <I>Americana,</I> 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.<P>Now, to a new century, he has brought <I>The Body Artist.</I> In this spare, seductive 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 -- time, love, and human perception. <I>The Body Artist</I> is a haunting, beautiful, and profoundly moving novel from one of the finest writers of our time.<P>