The Angel Esmeralda - Don Delillo [0]
“DeLillo has an uncanny knack for creating sentences that replicate the feel and rhythm of American life—and a devastating sense of humor that surfaces in the most surprising places.”
—MALCOLM JONES, NEWSWEEK
“DeLillo depicts an America in thrall to celebrity, technology and the mass media. . . . [He] gives us a visceral sense of how private lives and public events, the personal and the collective, can converge, with explosive force.”
—MICHIKO KAKUTANI, THE NEW YORK TIMES
“Don DeLillo has long been our most prescient writer, the man whose imagination felt like a crystal ball.”
—VINCE PASSARO, O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE
“DeLillo understands the capacity of words to elevate us above the mundane, to establish a distance from things and a mastery over them.
” —STEVEN E. ALFORD, HOUSTON CHRONICLE
FROM ONE OF THE GREATEST WRITERS OF OUR TIME, HIS FIRST COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES, WRITTEN BETWEEN 1979 AND 2011, CHRONICLING—AND FORETELLING—THREE DECADES OF AMERICAN LIFE
Set in Greece, the Caribbean, Manhattan, a white-collar prison and outer space, these nine stories are a mesmerizing introduction to Don DeLillo’s iconic voice, from the rich, startling, jazz-infused rhythms of his early work to the spare, distilled, monastic language of the later stories.
In “Creation,” a couple at the end of a cruise somewhere in the West Indies can’t get off the island—flights canceled, unconfirmed reservations, a dysfunctional economy. In “Human Moments in World War III,” two men orbiting the earth, charged with gathering intelligence and reporting to Colorado Command, hear the voices of American radio, from a half century earlier. In the title story, Sisters Edgar and Grace, nuns working the violent streets of the South Bronx, confirm the neighborhood’s miracle, the apparition of a dead child, Esmeralda.
Nuns, astronauts, athletes, terrorists and travelers, the characters in The Angel Esmeralda propel themselves into the world and define it. DeLillo’s sentences are instantly recognizable, as original as the splatter of Jackson Pollock or the luminous rectangles of Mark Rothko. These nine stories describe an extraordinary journey of one great writer whose prescience about world events and ear for American language changed the literary landscape.
DON DELILLO, the author of fifteen novels, including Falling Man, White Noise and Libra, has won the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the Jerusalem Prize for his complete body of work and the William Dean Howells Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters for his novel Underworld. In 2010, he received the PEN/Saul Bellow Award. These stories appeared in Esquire, Harper’s Magazine, Granta, Antaeus and The New Yorker. The title story appeared in The Best American Short Stories 1995.
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ALSO BY DON DELILLO
NOVELS
Americana
End Zone
Great Jones Street
Ratner’s Star
Players
Running Dog
The Names
White Noise
Libra
Mao II
Underworld
The Body Artist
Cosmopolis
Falling Man
Point Omega
PLAYS
The Day Room
Valparaiso
Love-Lies-Bleeding
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This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
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