Civilwarland In Bad Decline : Stories And A Novella

Author: George Saunders

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Price : 19.95 AUD
ISBN : 9780099595816
Publisher : Vintage Publishing
Imprint : Vintage
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Weight (g) : 0.143
Publication date : 06 February 1997
Dimensions : 198mm X 129mm X 12mm
Produced in : United Kingdom
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Author : George Saunders
Bind : Paperback
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Pages : 192
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Six short stories and a novella. Set in a dystopian near-future in which America has become little more than a theme park in terminal disrepair, they constitute a searching and bitterly humorous commentary on the current state of the American Dream.

First published 1996.

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A sharp, funny, wholly original collection of stories from the winner of the 2014 Folio Prize

Reviews

"One of the few living masters of the [short story] genre" Daily Telegraph "Surreal and puncturing" -- Margaret Atwood "There is no author I recommend to people more often - for ten years I've urged George Saunders onto everyone and everyone." -- Dave Eggers "[A] brilliant collection of short stories" -- Philip Hensher Mail on Sunday "Strangely moving, hilariously unsettling, and unlike anything else you'll read this year" Esquire