The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories is a collection of short stories by Don DeLillo. The nine stories are printed in chronological order and were written between 1979 and 2011. It is DeLillo's only such collection.
Contents Story Originally published in Date "Creation" Antaeus Spring 1979 "Human Moments in World War III" Esquire July 1983 "The Runner" Harper's September 1988 "The Ivory Acrobat" Granta Autumn 1988 "The Angel Esmeralda" Esquire May 1994 "Baader-Meinhof" The New Yorker April 1, 2002 "Midnight in Dostoevsky" The New Yorker November 30, 2009 "Hammer and Sickle" Harper's December 2010 "The Starveling" Granta Autumn 2011
Reception The Guardian described the stories as "masterfully designed" and "great art." Writing in The New Yorker, Martin Amis said: "These nine pieces add up to something considerable, and form a vital addition to the corpus." The New York Times called the stories "excellent" and said "DeLillo packs fertile ruminations and potent consolation into each of these rich, dense, concentrated stories." The Daily Telegraph called the stories "robustly brilliant."
Awards Finalist, 2011 The Story Prize Finalist, 2012 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
References
External links The Angel Esmeralda (Scribner edition) at the Internet Archive