- Social life and customs, Fiction, Fiction, short stories (single author), American Short stories
"If Americans in the future were to try to send us a message about where our culture is heading, they might simply point to the fiction of George Saunders. Living in a world that's both indelibly original and hauntingly familiar, the characters in these stories bring to life our most absurd tendencies, and allow us to see ourselves in a shocking, uproariously funny new light.".
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- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- George Saunders
- First published
- August 2000
- Pages
- 208
- Publisher
- Ediciones Alfabia, DeliDolu, Bloomsbury Pub Ltd
- Editions
- 14
- Language
- Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9788429750065
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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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