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See moreIn the same vein as his much-loved weekly column for the Guardian Magazine, this is a hilarious and incisive collection of essays from George Saunders.
A hilarious and incisive collection of essays from George Saunders, No. 1 New York Times bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo
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In this, his first collection of essays, Saunders trains his eye on the real world rather than the fictional and reveals it to be brimming with wonderful, marvellous strangeness. As he faces a political and cultural reality saturated with lazy media, false promises and political doublespeak, Saunders invokes the wisdom of American literary heroes Twain, Vonnegut and Barthelme and inspires us to re-examine our assumptions about the world we live in, as we struggle to discover what is really there.
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George Saunders is compared to notable figures like Orwell and Twain for his incisive satire in The Brain-Dead Megaphone. His humour and observations are both familiar and engaging, akin to Bill Bryson's style. The book is praised for its innovative approach, making complex critiques of American society seem both effortless and natural.
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ISBN: 9781408894828
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 02 November 2017
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 20.0mm
Width: 128.0mm
Height: 196.0mm
Weight: 200g
Pages: 272
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About the Author
George Saunders is the author of nine books, including the No. 1 New York Times bestselling novel Lincoln in the Bardo and the New York Times bestselling Tenth of December, which won the Folio Prize 2014 and was a finalist for the National Book Award 2013. He has received MacArthur and Guggenheim Fellowships, the PEN/Malamud Prize for excellence in the short story, and in 2013 was listed by Time as one of the world’s 100 Most Influential People. He teaches in the Creative Writing Program at Syracuse University.
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