Search results
The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories is a short story collection by Don DeLillo. Written between 1979 and 2011, and brought together for the first time in 2011, the stories show the changes in American culture over three decades. The collection received nominations for numerous literary fiction awards, and critics praise DeLillo for his unique ...
Dec 8, 2011 · The Angel Esmeralda Don DeLillo Scribner 224 pp / $24 Don DeLillo has been a powerful presence on the American literary scene for the past four decades, and his latest short-fiction anthology, The Angel Esmeralda, encapsulates some of his lasting concerns and themes. In it, the readers will find the familiar landscape of psychological alienation, sardonic […]
His story collection The Angel Esmeralda was a finalist for the Story Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. In 2013, DeLillo was awarded the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction, and in 2015, the National Book Foundation awarded DeLillo its Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.
Oct 28, 2011 · The finest story in the collection is not the eponymous “The Angel Esmeralda”, which concerns an apparition in the slum wastelands of the South Bronx, but “Hammer and Sickle” (2010), set ...
Dec 1, 2011 · In The Angel Esmeralda, DeLillo finds the freedom to represent the wide range of human experience in contemporary America - and forces us to confront the uncomfortable shadows lurking in the background.His characters are exposed to their own deep, often unconscious, longings: one man exploits the vulnerability of a woman he's just met, following her home to her apartment and pushing her too ...
Nov 15, 2011 · The Angel Esmeralda. : Don DeLillo. Simon and Schuster, Nov 15, 2011 - Fiction - 224 pages. 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 ...
Feb 25, 2020 · As a short story, The Angel Esmeralda offers a vivid snapshot of Bronx life. But as the subject of an opera, in which characters need to be defined and some kind of emotional trajectory traced, ...
