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Don DeLillo - The Angel Esmeralda
Released: 04/11/2011
Picador
DeLillo's first short story collection offers nine widely varying narratives from throughout his career. The postmodern author's writing has a fierce focus on the emotional reactions he draws from his characters, such as a couple who witness a child's abduction from a park. A perfect introduction to his unforgiving style.
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The Independent“DeLillo uses the full panoply of postmodern technique...” In his stories, DeLillo seeks ways to mine ambiguities and explore pared-down psychological states. He traffics in disquiet...
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Financial Times“DeLillo is disruptively and subtly, even surreptitiously, funny...” One might be forgiven for suspecting that the great crash of 2008 is all the invention of this most inventive, elegant and subversive dreamer of contemporary nightmares...
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Guardian“The dialogue, as in his novels, is act-it-out-in-your-head good...” In these stories or lucid dreams – sometimes drily shocking or mournfully funny, always masterfully designed – DeLillo himself isolates that stray thought, and makes of it great art...
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The Scotsman“Simultaneously morally apathetic and quietly sinister...” Throughout the book there is a fascination with characters who feel somehow either absent or tangential to their own lives. These individuals yearn for a feeling of connectedness, but seem almost reconciled to their apartness...
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