George Saunders is the Man Booker Prize-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo; Tenth of December; In Persuasion Nation; The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil; Pastoralia; CivilWarLand in Bad Decline; The Braindead Megaphone; and a children's book, The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip. His work appears regularly in the New Yorker, Harper's and GQ. In 2006, he was awarded a MacArthur Foundation "genius grant." In 2000, The New Yorker named him one of the "Best Writers Under 40." He is a 2013 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction. He teaches at Syracuse University.
"Artful and sophisicated... truly unusual. Imagine Lewis's Babbitt
thrown into the backseat of a car going cross-country, driven by R.
Crumb, Matt Groening, Lynda Barry, Harvey Pekar, or Spike Jonze."
—The New York Times
"Saunders is a provocateur, a moralist, a zealot, a lefty, and a
funny, funny writer, and the stories
in Pastoralia delight. We're very luck to have them."
—Esquire
“Intoxicating.” —Time Out“Exuberantly weird . . . brutally funny”
—The New York Times“Compulsively swallowed, sweetly addictive” —San
Francisco Bay Guardian“Demands to be reread immediately” —The Wall
Street Journal“Hilarious and heartrending” —The Village
Voice“Breathtaking . . . a masterpiece” —San Diego Union
Tribune“Riveting” —U.S. News and World Report“Screamingly funny”
—Time“Saunders is a provocateur, a moralist, a zealot, a lefty, and
a funny, funny writer, and the stories in Pastoralia delight. We’re
very lucky to have them.” —Esquire“Breathtaking, brutally hilarious
satire, a savage skewering not only of the American workplace, but
of the American character itself. . . . Pastoralia is a masterpiece
of unsettling comedy.” —San Diego Union Tribune“Artful and
sophisticated. . . .truly unusual. Imagine Lewis’s Babbitt thrown
into the back seat of a car going cross-country, driven by R.
Crumb, Matt Groening, Lynda Barry, Harvey Pekar or Spike Jonze.
That’d be a story Saunders could tell.”—The New York Times“The
short-story collection of the year . . . Pastoralia does everything
a gathering of tales is supposed to do: It touches the reader but
also provokes reflection, mirth, and pain.” —Kansas City
Star“Dazzling . . . Saunders’s misfits confront their degradations
with heroic optimism; rarely have the comic nuances of suffering
been tracked with such precision. These stories, injected with
Saunders’s highly original blend of irony and tenderness, ride you
down spirals of the absurd and fling you back to your own life,
startled.” —Men’s Journal“A master of distilling the disorders of
our time into fiction.” —Salon“Fiercely funny . . . [Saunders is] a
master of the self-flagellating interior monologue.” —The Boston
Globe
"Artful and sophisicated... truly unusual. Imagine Lewis's Babbitt
thrown into the backseat of a car going cross-country, driven by R.
Crumb, Matt Groening, Lynda Barry, Harvey Pekar, or Spike Jonze."
-The New York Times
"Saunders is a provocateur, a moralist, a zealot, a lefty, and a
funny, funny writer, and the stories in Pastoralia delight.
We're very luck to have them." -Esquire
"Intoxicating." -Time Out"Exuberantly weird . . . brutally
funny" -The New York Times"Compulsively swallowed, sweetly
addictive" -San Francisco Bay Guardian"Demands to be reread
immediately" -The Wall Street Journal"Hilarious and
heartrending" -The Village Voice"Breathtaking . . . a
masterpiece" -San Diego Union Tribune"Riveting" -U.S. News
and World Report"Screamingly funny" -Time"Saunders is a
provocateur, a moralist, a zealot, a lefty, and a funny, funny
writer, and the stories in Pastoralia delight. We're very
lucky to have them." -Esquire"Breathtaking, brutally hilarious
satire, a savage skewering not only of the American workplace, but
of the American character itself. . . . Pastoralia is a masterpiece
of unsettling comedy." -San Diego Union Tribune"Artful and
sophisticated. . . .truly unusual. Imagine Lewis's Babbitt thrown
into the back seat of a car going cross-country, driven by R.
Crumb, Matt Groening, Lynda Barry, Harvey Pekar or Spike Jonze.
That'd be a story Saunders could tell."-The New York Times"The
short-story collection of the year . . . Pastoralia does everything
a gathering of tales is supposed to do: It touches the reader but
also provokes reflection, mirth, and pain." -Kansas City
Star"Dazzling . . . Saunders's misfits confront their degradations
with heroic optimism; rarely have the comic nuances of suffering
been tracked with such precision. These stories, injected with
Saunders's highly original blend of irony and tenderness, ride you
down spirals of the absurd and fling you back to your own life,
startled." -Men's Journal"A master of distilling the disorders of
our time into fiction." -Salon"Fiercely funny . . . [Saunders is] a
master of the self-flagellating interior monologue." -The Boston
Globe
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