Review: The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories

In the pantheon of American literature, Don DeLillo occupies a prominent position. Since the publication of AMERICANA in 1971 through POINT OMEGA in 2010, DeLillo has been at the forefront of American postmodern literature. His resume includes countless writing awards, including the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Jerusalem Prize. His writing career embodies prescience about ... Read full review

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Review: The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories

I don't like going on too much about books. Writing in English makes it harder. But there is also that feeling of undoing something that I don't like. Undoing characters, undoing a plot, breaking the ... Read full review

Review: The Angel Esmeralda

THE PERFECT INTRODUCTION TO DON DeLILLO Don DeLillo is currently my favorite writer, and I've been on a quest to read all of his works over the past few months. Whenever anyone asks me about DeLillo ... Read full review

Review: The Angel Esmeralda

Gets under the skin, very disturbing, spare, beautiful, and cold as hell. I can't say I exactly liked reading this story collection that spans 30 years of Don DeLillo's career; I'm in awe of it. Part ... Read full review

Review: The Angel Esmeralda

Of these nine short stories, I loved two with no reservations: "Human Moments in World War III," and "Midnight in Dostoevsky." Had to work at some of the others, but worth the work, in varying degrees ... Read full review

Review: The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories

'Let the words be the facts. This was the nature of our walks – to register what was out there, all the scattered rhythms of circumstance and occurrence, and to reconstruct it as human noise.' After ... Read full review

Review: The Angel Esmeralda

4.5 stars. The strongest book DeLillo has released in some time. What's remarkable is how the stories work together as a whole, so that even the weakest piece "The Runner" introduces key themes that ... Read full review

Review: The Angel Esmeralda

The Angel Esmeralda is the first collection of all of Don DeLillo's short stories. They span a time period of 32 years, from 1979 to 2011. I have to admit that I was not very impressed with this ... Read full review

Review: The Angel Esmeralda

"It was Don DeLillo whiskey neat, and a blinking midnight clock" (Conor Oberst) The aforementioned lyrics are from the Bright Eyes song "Gold Mine Gutted", and I could not stop this song from running ... Read full review