The Angel Esmeralda

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• The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories

  Don DeLillo's electric Underworld, published in 1997, was always going to be a tough act to follow, given that its 800-plus pages surveyed an entire half century of life in America, from the 1951 baseball playoffs to the Internet age. But since it ar ... (read full critics)

  barnesandnoble published on Mon, 26 Dec 2011

• 'The Angel Esmerelda' Evokes a Feeling of Déjà Vu

  It’s impossible not to get a sense of déjà vu reading The Angel Esmeralda, the first book of short stories in Don DeLillo’s 40-year career. The themes here are echoes — of one another, yes, but even more, of the issues that have defined DeLillo’s wri ... (read full critics)

  popmatters published on Thu, 1 Dec 2011

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  I have spread my dreams.... *

  I definitely love short stories.
  I absolutely love Don DeLillo.
  So, there it is.
  Perfection.

  Nine stories (Salinger, I suppose), the first published in 1979, the last in 2011 (oh, my god, almost my entire life, I was born in 1978!).
  Calm down, my little crazy heart, calm down... ... (continue)

  I definitely love short stories.
  I absolutely love Don DeLillo.
  So, there it is.
  Perfection.

  Nine stories (Salinger, I suppose), the first published in 1979, the last in 2011 (oh, my god, almost my entire life, I was born in 1978!).
  Calm down, my little crazy heart, calm down...

  Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths,
  Enwrought with golden and silver light,
  The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
  Of night and light and the half light,
  I would spread the cloths under your feet:
  But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
  I have spread my dreams under your feet;
  Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

  W.B. Yeats (1865–1939)

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  Jolly 78 said on Nov 29, 2011 | 6 feedbacks

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• English Books
• Hardcover 224 Pages
• ISBN-10: 1451655843
• ISBN-13: 9781451655841
• Publisher: Scribner
• Pub date: Nov 15, 2011
• Also available as: Paperback, Others and eBook

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