Short stories by Don DeLillo
Don DeLillo is the author of fifteen novels, including Zero K, Underworld, Falling Man, White Noise, and Libra. He has won the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the Jerusalem Prize for his complete body of work, and the William Dean Howells Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2010, he was awarded the PEN/Saul Bellow Prize. The Angel Esmeralda was a finalist for the 2011 Story Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. In 2012, DeLillo received the Carl Sandburg Literary Award for his body of work.
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The aging matriarch of an inner-city convent struggles against the rising tide of drugs, poverty, and violence in her parish. The desolation initially drives her and her flock apart, but from an unaccountable tragedy arises a miracle that unites them in wonder.