The Angel Esmeralda

Don DeLillo Stories Offer Terror and Dread in Captivating Prose

Lee Polevoi

Reading the stories in The Angel Esmeralda reminds us how varied, adept, intelligent and ruthlessly honest this great writer has been from the beginning. Like his novels, each of these stories trades in dread and terror, and our failure to connect in the fractured and chaotic past half-century.

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