Reviews
"[DeLillo's] prose is masterly and austere…Even the most fragmentary of [the stories] provides the pleasure of reading the inimitably elegant sentences that DeLillo has been fashioning for four decades."-Troy Jollimore, The Washington Post, "I was dazzled…Reading this collection confirms DeLillo as one of our very best short story writers…The richness of his work, the pleasures on offer-intellectual, visceral, poetic, comic-are unrivalled."-Sam Lipsyte, author of The Ask, "Many of [DeLillo's] deceptively simple sentences will leave you awestruck…This slim volume is a marvel-a masterpiece of short fiction."-Carmela Ciuraru, USA Today, "A terrific overview of [DeLillo's] many strengths, from pitch-perfect character descriptions to surprising humor to soaring lyricism...The literary fireworks of the title piece alone are a stunning example of how the ordinary can become extraordinary in a gifted artist's hands…Behold and be dazzled."-Josh Emmons, People, "A vital addition to DeLillo's corpus…expertly realized…The gods have equipped DeLillo with the antennae of a visionary. There is right field, and there is left field. He comes from third field-aslant, athwart. And I love The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories. "-Martin Amis, The New Yorker, "The typical DeLillo tale reads like a diagnosis of a zeitgeist malady we never knew we had, and in these stories the malady is one of spellbound fixation. DeLillo has achieved a very particular kind of greatness…and his gifts…are, for a contemporary American writer, unsurpassed."-Charles Baxter, The New York Review of Books
