- Social life and customs, Fiction, Fiction, short stories (single author), Short stories
Talking candy bars, baby geniuses, disappointed mothers, castrated dogs, interned teenagers, and moral fables-all in this hilarious and heartbreaking collection. The best work yet from an author hailed as the heir to Kurt Vonnegut and Thomas Pynchon.
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- unpretentiousprestige
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- Author
- George Saunders
- First published
- 2006
- Pages
- 234
- Publisher
- Riverhead Books, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, Penguin Group USA, Inc.
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781429504492
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“Our enemies will first assail the health of our commerce, throwing up this objection and that to innovative methods and approaches designed to expand our prosperity, and thus our freedom.”
George Saunders (born December 2, 1958) is an American writer. He is best known for his short stories and his novel *Lincoln in the Bardo* (2017), which won the Booker Prize. Saunders' short stories have been published as several collections, including *CivilWarLand in Bad Decline* (1996) and *Tenth of December: Stories* (2013).
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