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'Civilwarland in Bad Decline' is a collection of half a dozen stories and a novella, some set in the near-future, the rest indefinitely contemporary - but all of them written from such an absorbingly odd perspective that they seem to originate in a parallel dimension a half step out of sync with our own.
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Funny, sad, bleak, weird, toxic - the future of America as the Free Market runs rampant,the environment skids into disarray, and civilization dissolves into surreal chaos. These wacky, brilliant, hilarious and entirely original stories cue us in on George Saunder's skewed vision of the legacy we are creating. Against the backdrop of our devolvement, our own worst tendencies and greatest virtues are weirdly illuminated.
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In six stories and the novella, Bounty, Saunders introduces readers to people struggling to survive in an increasingly haywire world. "(Saunders) has created a surreal, weirdly persuasive picture of the devolved future now taking shape in our own worst and most potent tendencies."--Tobias Wolff.
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- PublisherJonathan Cape
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0224042475
- ISBN 13 9780224042475
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages224
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CivilWarLand in Bad Decline: Stories and a Novella
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st printing of U.K. edition, a softcover original. Binding tight; pages clean; wraps show light wear, including along leading edge of back cover. Inscribed by Saunders on title page to p/o, "with very best, British-type wishes." Author's first book, a finalist for the 1996 PEN/Hemingway Award. This edition is startlingly uncommon signed. 179 pages. Inscribed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 3389
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