The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories - Softcover

Don DeLillo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1447207564 ISBN 13: 9781447207566

Publisher: Picador, 2012

Synopsis

‘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

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Review:

"[DeLillo's] prose is masterly and austere...Even the most fragmentary of [the stories] provides the pleasure of reading the inimitably elegant sentences that DeLillo has been fashioning for four decades." --Troy Jollimore, "The Washington Post"

"It would be condescending to say that over the three-decade span of this collection DeLillo has kept up with modern culture; more accurate to say that culture keeps catching up with him . . . In these stories or lucid dreams - sometimes drily shocking or mournfully funny, always masterfully designed - De Lillo isolates that stray thought, and makes of it great art" --Guardian

"It is a measure of DeLillo's artistry that he makes the reader feel that these transitory moments of sublimity and grace will provide the characters with enough redemption to make it through another day." --Sunday Times

"The stories are arranged chronologically from 1979 to 2011, and for a writer whose work has gone through the evolutions and stylistic refinements that DeLillo's has, it's striking how cohesive the collection feels. The characters are all isolated in some way, existing at both a literal and figurative remove from the world. . . The collection's title story, a version of which was incorporated into Underworld, is its most mysteriously affecting...Both painstakingly ironic and emotionally powerful, it's a quintessentially DeLilloean moment of counterintuitive transcendence.
As always, DeLillo's dialogue combines impeccable colloquialism with laconic, epigrammatic deadpan...There is a sadness and a loneliness to these stories that goes beyond the postmodern and touches on some essential human desolation. The Angel Esmeralda is a beautiful book and a reminder of something many readers may have begun to forget: the penetrating force of DeLillo's wisdom and style."
--Observer

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Picador
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1447207564
• ISBN 13: 9781447207566
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256