The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories
Author(s): Don DeLillo
This is Don DeLillo's first collection of short stories, written between 1979 and 2011; in it he represents the wide range of human experience in contemporary America - and forces us to confront the uncomfortable shadows lurking in the background. His characters are plagued by their own deep, often unconscious, longings; they are subjected to shocking violations, exposed to unexpected acts of terror. No matter whether he is focused upon the slums of New York or astronauts in orbit around the Earth, DeLillo chooses never to turn away from the unsettling manner in which humans are brought together. These nine stories describe the extraordinary journey of a great American writer who changed the literary landscape. 'Don DeLillo's richly compressed short stories are the work of a true master ...In these stories or lucid dreams - sometimes drily shocking or mournfully funny, always masterfully designed - DeLillo himself isolates that stray thought, and makes of it great art.' Guardian
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'Robustly brilliant ... This collection will provide manna to his admirers, and serve as the perfect introduction for those who have yet to discover his obsessive world.' Daily Telegraph
DeLillo's unique voice has been prevalent for decades and these short stories, from 1979 to 2011 are a testament to his powerful imagination and scarily prescient worlds. DeLillo dissects what makes individuals tick and what place they have in the changing world. 9 stories to introduce you to a brilliant writer.
Elisa, Book Grocer
'Don DeLillo's richly compressed short stories are the work of a true master ...In these stories or lucid dreams - sometimes drily shocking or mournfully funny, always masterfully designed - DeLillo himself isolates that stray thought and makes of it great art.' Guardian
Don DeLillo, the author of fifteen novels, including Point Omega, Falling Man, White Noise and Libra, has won many honours in America and abroad, including 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. He has also written three plays.
General Fields
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- : Pan Macmillan
- : Picador
- : 0.19
- : 01 July 2012
- : 197mm X 130mm
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 October 2012
- : books
Special Fields
- : Don DeLillo
- : Paperback
- : Main Market Ed.
- : 813.54
- : 16
- : 256
- : Illustrations