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  • Paperback: 224 pages
  • Publisher: Scribner; Reprint edition (October 2, 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1451659091
  • ISBN-13: 978-1451659092
  • Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 0.5 x 8 inches
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  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (33 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 starsSmaller Themes But Big Rewards
By Doctor Moss on December 4, 2011
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This is Delillo's first collection of short stories. Underworld was a great book, a big book with big themes and long storylines. This brings him back to scale -- stories that allow him to focus on small, well-contained themes that you can take in and toss around in your mind without a lot of strain.

There are numerous themes in these stories, but the one that grabbed me most was a recurring one-sided way in which characters in the stories bridge the gulf between their own inner lives and those of other people, where they have only the external marks as evidence -- the way they walk, the expressions on their faces, the clothes they wear.

Delillo's characters often encounter each other through this kind of opaque externality, never directly interacting in conversation but constructing whole narratives of familiarity from the barest hints and great leaps of surmise. Leo Zhelezniak in The Starveling, follows, even stalks, a woman who seems to share his own alienated lifestyle, spending their days going from theatre to theatre in New York, watching movies in sequences coordinated with travel times and subway routes. He comes to "know" so much about her without ever talking to her, that he can cross the gulf between them on this bridge he's built entirely on his own, as if the familiarity and shared experience of life he has constructed is really there.

It's something we all do, just not so starkly as Zhelezniak, or the characters in Midnight in Dostoevsky who construct the life of "the man in the hooded coat". We have our daily encounters with one another, and we build our understandings of each other on what, in the full scope of our lives, are really only glimpses. But it is how we understand each other.Read more ›
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4.0 out of 5 starsMicrocosms
By Tyler Jones on November 15, 2011
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There is something fascinating and frightening about the way that Don DeLillo sees the world. It's not that he sees it differently than you or I, he sees it more clearly, he makes connections most of us don't dream of. For this reason he has been called "weirdly prophetic" about the millennial decades. For example, the World Trade Center Towers featured prominently as the site for terrorists attacks in more than one novel. How did he know that they would be a target almost 30 years prior to the events of 9/11? He looked at those Towers and saw something so monumental that they would have to come down, one way or another.

These stories span almost over 30 years of time, and DeLillo's writing has under gone many evolutions since then. I've read every single one of his books and many of these stories fit well into the spaces between novels.

I prefer not to summarize plots in my reviews, simply because I go into book and stories completely blind and discover it. I would hate to rob anyone of anything. So, I will say that one of the things I've always loved about DeLillo is the way he takes everyday events and infuses them with a sense of dread. We all get flat tires, or miss flights, or call a wrong number - but in the DeLillo world these things are signs of something much larger at work, even if it's never revealed the fear is felt.

DeLillo recently wrote a short story that was published in the New Yorker called "Midnight In Dostoyevsky," in which two young men follow a man in a strange coat. The act itself is fairly innocent, but the way Delillo writes it makes you wonder if the two boys are going to rob or murder the man in the coat.Read more ›
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4.0 out of 5 starsGood intro to DeLillo, but not his very best work
By Federico (Fred) Moramarco VINE VOICE on January 7, 2012
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The Angel Esmeralda is a book I would recommend to readers unfamiliar with Don DeLillo's work because the stories were written over a 33 year period, the earliest,"Creation," from 1979 to the most recent, "The Starveling," (2011). The best of them, "Human Moments in World War III," "Hammer and Sickle," and "The Starveling," show us how DeLillo's work nearly always captures something about American life many of us miss. "Human Moments," for example juxtaposes the perspective of two astronauts orbiting the earth with the wars occurring all over the planet. In this quasi-sci-fi tale, nuclear war has been banned so that humanity can better fight conventional wars without destroying itself altogether. It's the astronauts' job to monitor these wars from above so that the belligerent activity doesn't get out of hand. Although published in 1979, the piece seems a parable about how we have become accustomed to a planetary landscape of continuing and continual wars. Ironically, the view of the entire planet, made possible by space travel, has not brought us together, but has given us the tools to observe how screwed up we are as a species. "Hammer and Sickle" takes us inside a prison "camp" for financial criminals, giving us a unique perspective on the current world economic meltdown. As always, DeLillo's style is dense and not for everyone, but you enjoy exercising your neurons and synapses, this is a must read.
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5.0 out of 5 starsA Terrific Collection
By Ethan Cooper VINE VOICE on February 28, 2012
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DeLillo has divided the nine stories in this terrific collection into three units. These are:

o Part One: DeLillo examines odd couples in travel. In CREATION (1979), the couple is a predatory man with a feel for travel clichés and a woman that he befriends/exploits on an island in the Caribbean. There is sex but no intimacy as they helplessly await a connecting flight. In contrast, the couple in HUMAN MOMENTS IN WORLD WAR III (1983) is two astronauts in orbit around the earth, monitoring and enabling a three-week long war. Here, the young astronaut Vollman shows faint poetic inclinations but ordinary abilities and awareness. Meanwhile, the narrator is intensely and expressively original and seeks to suppress the nature of his job through mission discipline and jargon. The highlight of Part One: The spirited but methodical priming of a deadly laser.

o Part Two: In this unit, DeLillo examines three instances of hysteria. In THE RUNNER (1988), the hysteria arises from a bystander at a kidnapping, who imposes a false narrative on what she has witnessed. In THE IVORY ACROBAT (1988), hysteria haunts a woman who experiences two earthquakes. An ivory acrobat, referencing a time before the quakes, takes her outside her hysterical terror. Finally, THE ANGEL ESMERALDA (1994) shows the elderly Sister Edgar, a cold-war nun discombobulated by the ravages of drugs and poverty in the Bronx. Her hysteria takes the forms of germ phobia, obsessive and infinite regressive reasoning, and witness to a miracle of transcendence. The Highlights: Kyle experiences the terror of an earthquake; and Sister Gracie, chasing Esmeralda in an abandoned lot, is distracted by bats swirling from a crater filled with medical waste.

o Part Three: Here, DeLillo presents four stories about isolation.Read more ›
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Most Recent Customer Reviews

4.0 out of 5 starsFour Stars

Ten early stories by one of my faves.

Published 13 months ago by Ronny P Kaye
4.0 out of 5 starsSpellbound

Delillo is more well-known for longer works of fiction. His novels are concerned with American life, like “White Noise” and “Falling Man” which addressed the paranoia of modern... Read more

Published 21 months ago by J. Ang
5.0 out of 5 starsnever thought i'd find a story as great as those of the masters

But The Angel Esmerelda is it. The other stories are good, but the title story is a knockout. It is handled so beautifully and main character's emotions and reactions are... Read more

Published 22 months ago by Barbara Grimaldi
3.0 out of 5 starsNine Stories?

Really one story in nine settings. No plot, begining, or end. Just a slice. The sentences are not particularly elegant , other reviews notwithstanding. Read more

Published on March 27, 2014 by T. Rehfeldt
4.0 out of 5 starsBeautiful short stories

DeLillo produced well written and beautiful short stories. They invite to use imagination to follow into his world and let dreams wander.

Published on March 19, 2014 by Miss Isb Honke
4.0 out of 5 starsGood read

DeLillo's stories are always interesting, a bit off center and deal with unusual fictional scenarios. That said, they are thought-provoking and very well done! Read more

Published on October 27, 2013 by Dr. R.P. Forsberg
3.0 out of 5 starsA poetic work

A good sampling of DeLillo's prose, I thought it was a rather poetic group of a stories. The Angel Esmeralda is a classic
slice of European history , culture and life. Read more

Published on July 30, 2013 by Laura White
5.0 out of 5 starsa master's stories

This collection is most powerful if you are familiar with DeLillo's themes. If you are not, this is a good introduction, and will tell you if you want to read the superb novels.

Published on June 16, 2013 by Jay Alex
3.0 out of 5 starsIt won't keep you up all night...

Some good stories but most are no hum.
I love short stories and look for them, but this collection
just wasn't that much fun to read
If you can't sleep try it,... Read more

Published on June 16, 2013 by HHealer
3.0 out of 5 starsAlright stories

The stories in this book are, I believe, DeLillo's first collection of stories. They are only ok. I am actually a fan of his writing, and kind of expected a little more than I got... Read more

Published on May 16, 2013 by Jenn

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