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The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories; Don Delillo
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Very good
- Seller notes
- “Very good trade paperback. Solid binding. Some wear to cover. We use quality packaging materials.”
- ISBN
- 9781451659092
- Book Title
- Angel Esmeralda : Nine Stories
- Publisher
- Scribner
- Item Length
- 8 in
- Publication Year
- 2012
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.7 in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Short Stories (Single Author), General, Literary
- Item Weight
- 7.1 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.2 in
- Number of Pages
- 224 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Scribner
ISBN-10
1451659091
ISBN-13
9781451659092
eBay Product ID (ePID)
113427761
Product Key Features
Book Title
Angel Esmeralda : Nine Stories
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2012
Topic
Short Stories (Single Author), General, Literary
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Fiction
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
7.1 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2011-033996
Reviews
"I was dazzled...Reading this collection confirms DeLillo as one of our very best short story writers...The richness of his work, the pleasures on offer-intellectual, visceral, poetic, comic-are unrivalled."-Sam Lipsyte, author of The Ask, "Many of [DeLillo's] deceptively simple sentences will leave you awestruck…This slim volume is a marvel-a masterpiece of short fiction."-Carmela Ciuraru, USA Today, "Many of [DeLillo's] deceptively simple sentences will leave you awestruck...This slim volume is a marvel--a masterpiece of short fiction."--Carmela Ciuraru, USA Today, "A vital addition to DeLillo's corpus...expertly realized...The gods have equipped DeLillo with the antennae of a visionary. There is right field, and there is left field. He comes from third field-aslant, athwart. And I love The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories. "-Martin Amis, The New Yorker, "I was dazzled...Reading this collection confirms DeLillo as one of our very best short story writers...The richness of his work, the pleasures on offer--intellectual, visceral, poetic, comic--are unrivalled."--Sam Lipsyte, author of The Ask, "Many of [DeLillo's] deceptively simple sentences will leave you awestruck...This slim volume is a marvel-a masterpiece of short fiction."-Carmela Ciuraru, USA Today, eoeThe typical DeLillo tale reads like a diagnosis of a zeitgeist malady we never knew we had, and in these stories the malady is one of spellbound fixation. DeLillo has achieved a very particular kind of greatnesseand his giftseare, for a contemporary American writer, unsurpassed.ee"Charles Baxter, The New York Review of Books, "[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, "[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, "I was dazzled…Reading this collection confirms DeLillo as one of our very best short story writers…The richness of his work, the pleasures on offer-intellectual, visceral, poetic, comic-are unrivalled."-Sam Lipsyte, author of The Ask, "A vital addition to DeLillo's corpus...expertly realized...The gods have equipped DeLillo with the antennae of a visionary. There is right field, and there is left field. He comes from third field--aslant, athwart. And I love The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories. "--Martin Amis, The New Yorker, "A terrific overview of [DeLillo's] many strengths, from pitch-perfect character descriptions to surprising humor to soaring lyricism...The literary fireworks of the title piece alone are a stunning example of how the ordinary can become extraordinary in a gifted artist's hands...Behold and be dazzled."-Josh Emmons, People, "The typical DeLillo tale reads like a diagnosis of a zeitgeist malady we never knew we had, and in these stories the malady is one of spellbound fixation. DeLillo has achieved a very particular kind of greatness...and his gifts...are, for a contemporary American writer, unsurpassed."-Charles Baxter, The New York Review of Books, eoeA vital addition to DeLilloe(tm)s corpuseexpertly realizedeThe gods have equipped DeLillo with the antennae of a visionary. There is right field, and there is left field. He comes from third fielde"aslant, athwart. And I love The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories. ee"Martin Amis, The New Yorker, "A terrific overview of [DeLillo's] many strengths, from pitch-perfect character descriptions to surprising humor to soaring lyricism...The literary fireworks of the title piece alone are a stunning example of how the ordinary can become extraordinary in a gifted artist's hands…Behold and be dazzled."-Josh Emmons, People, eoeA terrific overview of [DeLilloe(tm)s] many strengths, from pitch-perfect character descriptions to surprising humor to soaring lyricism...The literary fireworks of the title piece alone are a stunning example of how the ordinary can become extraordinary in a gifted artiste(tm)s handseBehold and be dazzled.ee"Josh Emmons, People, "A vital addition to DeLillo's corpus…expertly realized…The gods have equipped DeLillo with the antennae of a visionary. There is right field, and there is left field. He comes from third field-aslant, athwart. And I love The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories. "-Martin Amis, The New Yorker, "A terrific overview of [DeLillo's] many strengths, from pitch-perfect character descriptions to surprising humor to soaring lyricism...The literary fireworks of the title piece alone are a stunning example of how the ordinary can become extraordinary in a gifted artist's hands...Behold and be dazzled."--Josh Emmons, People, "The typical DeLillo tale reads like a diagnosis of a zeitgeist malady we never knew we had, and in these stories the malady is one of spellbound fixation. DeLillo has achieved a very particular kind of greatness...and his gifts...are, for a contemporary American writer, unsurpassed."--Charles Baxter, The New York Review of Books, eoeI was dazzledeReading this collection confirms DeLillo as one of our very best short story writerseThe richness of his work, the pleasures on offere"intellectual, visceral, poetic, comice"are unrivalled.ee"Sam Lipsyte, author of The Ask, eoe[DeLilloe(tm)s] prose is masterly and austereeEven the most fragmentary of [the stories] provides the pleasure of reading the inimitably elegant sentences that DeLillo has been fashioning for four decades.ee"Troy Jollimore, The Washington Post, "The typical DeLillo tale reads like a diagnosis of a zeitgeist malady we never knew we had, and in these stories the malady is one of spellbound fixation. DeLillo has achieved a very particular kind of greatness…and his gifts…are, for a contemporary American writer, unsurpassed."-Charles Baxter, The New York Review of Books, eoeMany of [DeLilloe(tm)s] deceptively simple sentences will leave you awestruckeThis slim volume is a marvele"a masterpiece of short fiction.ee"Carmela Ciuraru, USA Today, "[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
Dewey Edition
23
TitleLeading
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Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Synopsis
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 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. 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., 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 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. 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.
LC Classification Number
PS3554.E4425A84 2011
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