George Saunders is the Man Booker Prize-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo; Tenth of December; In Persuasion Nation; The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil; Pastoralia; CivilWarLand in Bad Decline; The Braindead Megaphone; and a children's book, The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip. His work appears regularly in the New Yorker, Harper's and GQ. In 2006, he was awarded a MacArthur Foundation "genius grant." In 2000, The New Yorker named him one of the "Best Writers Under 40." He is a 2013 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction. He teaches at Syracuse University.
"Back when Philip K. Dick asked, 'Do Androids Dream of Electric
Sheep?' who could have imagined that George Saunders would
answer?... Saunders's caustic wit, imaginative flair, and the
ping-pong speed of his dialogue are on full display here." -- Los
Angeles Times
"Leaves you startled and hushed, grateful to be alive and to be
reading." -- Associated Press
"Insanely inventive... Stunningly effective... The surreal Saunders
magic is working." -- New York Times Book Review
"Ludicrously funny and outrageously prescient... Saunders's finest
gift... is to construct a story of absurdist satire, then locate
within it a moment of searing humanity." -- The Boston Globe
"Pynchon-meets-Wonder Showzen." -- Entertainment Weekly
"Back when Philip K. Dick asked, 'Do Androids Dream of Electric
Sheep?' who could have imagined that George Saunders would
answer?... Saunders's caustic wit, imaginative flair, and the
ping-pong speed of his dialogue are on full display here." --
Los Angeles Times
"Leaves you startled and hushed, grateful to be alive and to be
reading." -- Associated Press
"Insanely inventive... Stunningly effective... The surreal Saunders
magic is working." -- New York Times Book Review
"Ludicrously funny and outrageously prescient... Saunders's finest
gift... is to construct a story of absurdist satire, then locate
within it a moment of searing humanity." -- The Boston
Globe
"Pynchon-meets-Wonder Showzen." -- Entertainment Weekly
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