In this,his first collection of essays,Saunders trains his eye on the real world rather than the fictional and reveals it to be brimming with wonderful,marvellous strangeness. As he faces a political and cultural reality saturated with lazy media,false promises and political doublespeak,Saunders invokes the wisdom of American literary heroes Twain,Vonnegut and Barthelme and inspires us to re-examine our assumptions about the world we live in,as we struggle to discover what is really there.
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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCISBN: 9781408894828Number of pages: 272Weight: 216 gDimensions: 198 x 129 mm
MEDIA REVIEWS
'Deceptively light...deadpan funny...Saunders,as an American social and literary critic,may be shaping up as the Orwell of the millennium''Not since Twain has America produced a satirist this funny''Saunders is a warm and funny guide through familiar and foreign landscapes...His job is to observe and be funny...in a tone often reminiscent of Bill Bryson''Again and again,Saunders demonstrates that wacky,subversive,formally strange writing is not only contrary to our nation's capitalist spirit,it's the most natural and effective of responses to it. He makes the all-but-impossible look effortless. We're lucky to have him'
George Saunders
Widely regarded as one of America's most talented contemporary novelists,George Saunders made his name writing acclaimed short stories,published in the collections CivilWarLand in Bad Decline,Pastoralia,In Persuasion Nation and Tenth of December. His debut novel,Lincoln in the Bardo,won the Booker Prize for Fiction in 2017 and is an international bestseller.
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