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3 de nov. de 2023 · CivilWarLand in Bad Decline is a 1996 collection of six short stories and one novella by George Saunders. In the title story, the narrator and his boss hire a dangerous private security guard to ...
1 de jan. de 1996 · CIVILWARLAND IN BAD DECLINE. by George Saunders ‧ RELEASE DATE: Jan. 1, 1996. A debut collection so friendly and casual in style (pieces first appeared in Harper's and The New Yorker) that it takes a while before you realize what a frightening world Saunders has created. His is a dystopian vision of a "degraded cosmos,'' a future in which ...
16 de jan. de 1996 · Yet there is a sense of darkness and despair to be found lurking in each of them, and then the ending of each story seems to cleanse the darkness and leave the reader refreshed. I'd hate to call a work of literature cathartic, but somehow I feel like the stories in "Civilwarland in Bad Decline" almost are cathartic in a way.
- George Saunders
10 de nov. de 2021 · CivilWarLand in bad decline by Saunders, George, 1958-Publication date 1997 Topics Short stories, American -- 20th century, Short stories, American Publisher
27 de nov. de 2012 · CivilWarLand in Bad Decline. : Since its publication in 1996, George Saunders’s debut collection has grown in esteem from a cherished cult classic to a masterpiece of the form, inspiring an entire generation of writers along the way. In six stories and a novella, Saunders hatches an unforgettable cast of characters, each struggling to survive ...
CIVILWARLAND IN BAD DECLINE W x T HEN a potential big investor comes for the tour the first thing I always do is take them out to the transplanted Erie Canal Lock. We've got a good ninety feet of actual working canal out there and a well-researched dioramic of a coolie campsite. Inside the little bunkhouse
[CivilWarLand in Bad Decline] is scary, hilarious, and unforgettable.”—Tobias Wolff “Saunders makes the all-but-impossible look effortless.”—Jonathan Franzen “Not since Twain has America produced a satirist this funny.”—Zadie Smith “An astoundingly tuned voice—graceful, dark, authentic, and funny—telling just the kinds of stories we need to get us through these times ...
