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Civilwarland In Bad Decline
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  • Published: 15 December 2016
  • ISBN: 9781784871291
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 176
  • RRP: $32.99

Civilwarland In Bad Decline

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'An astoundingly tuned voice - graceful, dark, authentic and funny' Thomas Pynchon
The first ferocious, funny and unique collection of stories from George Saunders, winner of the inaugural Folio Prize

THE 2017 MAN BOOKER-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF LINCOLN IN THE BARDO

In his first collection, George Saunders' vision of our near future is as black and funny as you can get. He takes us on a trip to the shopping malls and theme parks and enviromental hazards that lie just around the chronological corner, introducing us to a gang of misfits and losers struggling to survive in an increasingly haywire world. Bizarre but familiar, fierce but always humane, these are stunningly original stories by a master of the form.

'Saunders is a morally passionate, serious writer, who perfectly expresses the madness of the times we live in. He will be read long after these times have passed' Zadie Smith

'He makes the all-but-impossible look effortless. We're lucky to have him' Jonathan Franzen

'There is no-one better, no-one more essential' Dave Eggers
  • Published: 15 December 2016
  • ISBN: 9781784871291
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 176
  • RRP: $32.99
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About the author

George Saunders

George Saunders is the author of nine books, including the novel Lincoln in the Bardo, which won the Man Booker Prize, and the story collections Pastoralia and Tenth of December, which was a finalist for the National Book Award. He has received fellowships from the Lannan Foundation, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Guggenheim Foundation. In 2006 he was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. In 2013 he was awarded the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction and was included in Time’s list of the one hundred most influential people in the world. He teaches in the creative writing program at Syracuse University.
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Also by George Saunders

The Braindead Megaphone
In Persuasion Nation
Pastoralia
The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip
The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil
Congratulations, by the way
Fox 8
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Praise for Civilwarland In Bad Decline

Surreal and puncturing

Margaret Atwood

[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

Hilarious but frightening, cruel yet compassionate...read the first pages of any story slowly and you'll realise how good he is

Scotland on Sunday

The debut of an exciting new voice in fiction...He's a savage satirist with a sentimental streak who delineates the dark underbelly of the American dream. Mr Saunders' satiric vision of America is dark and demented, also ferocious and very funny

Michiko Kakutani, New York Times

One of the few living masters of the [short story] genre

Daily Telegraph

There is no author I recommend to people more often - for ten years I've urged George Saunders onto everyone and everyone.

Dave Eggers