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Nine Stories
Scribner
November 2011
On Sale: November 15, 2011
224 pages
ISBN: 1451655843
EAN: 9781451655841
Kindle: B0052A6FR0
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Fiction
From one of the greatest writers of our time, his first
collection of short stories, written between 1979 and 2011,
chronicling—and foretelling—three decades of American life
Set in Greece, the Caribbean, Manhattan, a white-collar
prison and outer space, these nine stories are a mesmerizing
introduction to Don DeLillo’s iconic voice, from the rich,
startling, jazz-infused rhythms of his early work to the
spare, distilled, monastic language of the later stories. In “Creation,” a couple at the end of a cruise somewhere in
the West Indies can’t get off the island—flights canceled,
unconfirmed reservations, a dysfunctional economy. In “Human
Moments in World War III,” two men orbiting the earth,
charged with gathering intelligence and reporting to
Colorado Command, hear the voices of American radio, from a
half century earlier. In the title story, Sisters Edgar and
Grace, nuns working the violent streets of the South Bronx,
confirm the neighborhood’s miracle, the apparition of a dead
child, Esmeralda. Nuns, astronauts, athletes, terrorists and travelers, the
characters in The Angel Esmeralda propel themselves into the
world and define it. DeLillo’s sentences are instantly
recognizable, as original as the splatter of Jackson Pollock
or the luminous rectangles of Mark Rothko. These nine
stories describe an extraordinary journey of one great
writer whose prescience about world events and ear for
American language changed the literary landscape.
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