The Angel Esmeralda by Don Delillo

The Angel Esmeralda by Don Delillo

A finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and the Story Prize, the first ever collection of dazzlingly told (The New York Times) short stories--now available as a trade paperback.

Set in Greece, the Caribbean, Manhattan, a white-collar prison and outer space, this small masterpiece of short fiction (USA Today) is a mesmerizing introduction to Don DeLillo's iconic voice. 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 I, 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. 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 published his first short story when he was twenty-three years old. He has since written twelve novels, including White Noise (1985) which won the National Book Award. It was followed by Libra (1988), his novel about the assassination of President Kennedy, and by Mao II, which won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.

In 1997, he published the bestselling Underworld, and in 1999 he was awarded the Jerusalem Prize, given to a writer whose work expresses the theme of the freedom of the individual in society; he was the first American author to receive it. He is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

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ISBN 13	9781451659092
ISBN 10	1451659091
Titre	The Angel Esmeralda
Auteur	Don Delillo
État	Non disponible
Type de reliure	Paperback
Éditeur	Simon & Schuster
Année de publication	2012-10-02
Nombre de pages	224
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