An edition of Pastoralia (2000)

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An edition of Pastoralia (2000)

Pastoralia

stories

  • 3.00 ·
  • 2 Ratings
  • 16 Want to read
  • 0 Currently reading
  • 4 Have read

"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.".

"Here you find people who live and work in a simulated, theme-park cave and communicate with their loved ones via fax machine. You encounter a family happily gathered around their favorite form of entertainment, a computer-generated TV show called The Worst That Could Happen. And you hear an upbeat self-help guru sermonize about how figuring out who's been "crapping in your oatmeal" will help raise your self-esteem.

With an uncanny sense of how our culture reflects our character, Saunders mixes a deadpan naturalism with a wicked sense of humor to reveal a picture of contemporary America that's both feverishly strange and, through his characters' perseverance, oddly hopeful."--BOOK JACKET.

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Publisher
Riverhead Books
Language
English
Pages
188

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Pastoralia: stories
2000, Riverhead Books
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Table of Contents

Pastoralia
Winky
Sea oak
The end of FIRPO in the world
The barber's unhappiness
The falls.

Edition Notes

Published in
New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3569.A7897 E53 2000, PS3569.A7897E53 2000

The Physical Object

Pagination
188 p. ;
Number of pages
188

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL59145M
Internet Archive
pastoraliastorie00saun
ISBN 10
1573221619
LCCN
99087258
OCLC/WorldCat
43207286
Library Thing
55338
Goodreads
415230

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I HAVE TO ADMIT I'm not feeling my best.
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