{"title":"George Saunders","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"liberation-day-stories-george-saunders-paperback","title":"Liberation Day: Stories -- George Saunders, Paperback","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES \u003c\/i\u003eBESTSELLER - \"One of our most inventive purveyors of the form returns with pitch-perfect, genre-bending stories that stare into the abyss of our national character. . . . An exquisite work from a writer whose reach is galactic.\"--\u003ci\u003eOprah Daily\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eBooker Prize winner George Saunders returns with his first collection of short stories since the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller \u003ci\u003eTenth of December.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, Oprah Daily, \u003c\/i\u003eNPR, \u003ci\u003eTime, USA Today, The Guardian, Esquire, Kirkus Reviews, Booklist, Library Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe \"best short-story writer in English\" (\u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e) is back with a masterful collection that explores ideas of power, ethics, and justice and cuts to the very heart of what it means to live in community with our fellow humans. With his trademark prose--wickedly funny, unsentimental, and exquisitely tuned--Saunders continues to challenge and surprise: Here is a collection of prismatic, resonant stories that encompass joy and despair, oppression and revolution, bizarre fantasy and brutal reality. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Love Letter\" is a tender missive from grandfather to grandson, in the midst of a dystopian political situation in the (not too distant, all too believable) future, that reminds us of our obligations to our ideals, ourselves, and one another. \"Ghoul\" is set in a Hell-themed section of an underground amusement park in Colorado and follows the exploits of a lonely, morally complex character named Brian, who comes to question everything he takes for granted about his reality. In \"Mother's Day,\" two women who loved the same man come to an existential reckoning in the middle of a hailstorm. In \"Elliott Spencer,\" our eighty-nine-year-old protagonist finds himself brainwashed, his memory \"scraped\"--a victim of a scheme in which poor, vulnerable people are reprogrammed and deployed as political protesters. And \"My House\"--in a mere seven pages--comes to terms with the haunting nature of unfulfilled dreams and the inevitability of decay. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTogether, these nine subversive, profound, and essential stories coalesce into a case for viewing the world with the same generosity and clear-eyed attention Saunders does, even in the most absurd of circumstances.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e George Saunders\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Random House Trade\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/10\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.10w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780525509615","brand":"George Saunders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44226825748708,"sku":"9780525509615","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0611\/9587\/8628\/files\/9780525509615.jpg?v=1719515512"},{"product_id":"lincoln-in-the-bardo-george-saunders-hardcover","title":"Lincoln in the Bardo -- George Saunders, Hardcover","description":"\u003cb\u003e#1 \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER - WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe \u003cb\u003e\"devastatingly moving\" (\u003ci\u003ePeople\u003c\/i\u003e) \u003c\/b\u003efirst novel from the author of \u003ci\u003eTenth of December\u003c\/i\u003e a moving and original father-son story featuring none other than Abraham Lincoln, as well as an unforgettable cast of supporting characters, living and dead, historical and invented\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed One of \u003ci\u003ePaste\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e'\u003c\/b\u003es Best Novels of the Decade - Named One of the Ten Best Books of the Year by \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post, USA Today, \u003c\/i\u003eand Maureen Corrigan, NPR - One of \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e's Ten Best Novels of the Year - A \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003eNotable Book \u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e- \u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003eO: The Oprah Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e's Best Books of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eFebruary 1862. The Civil War is less than one year old. The fighting has begun in earnest, and the nation has begun to realize it is in for a long, bloody struggle. Meanwhile, President Lincoln's beloved eleven-year-old son, Willie, lies upstairs in the White House, gravely ill. In a matter of days, despite predictions of a recovery, Willie dies and is laid to rest in a Georgetown cemetery. \"My poor boy, he was too good for this earth,\" the president says at the time. \"God has called him home.\" Newspapers report that a grief-stricken Lincoln returns, alone, to the crypt several times to hold his boy's body. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom that seed of historical truth, George Saunders spins an unforgettable story of familial love and loss that breaks free of its realistic, historical framework into a supernatural realm both hilarious and terrifying. Willie Lincoln finds himself in a strange purgatory where ghosts mingle, gripe, commiserate, quarrel, and enact bizarre acts of penance. Within this transitional state--called, in the Tibetan tradition, the bardo--a monumental struggle erupts over young Willie's soul.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLincoln in the Bardo\u003c\/i\u003e is an astonishing feat of imagination and a bold step forward from one of the most important and influential writers of his generation. Formally daring, generous in spirit, deeply concerned with matters of the heart, it is a testament to fiction's ability to speak honestly and powerfully to the things that really matter to us. Saunders has invented a thrilling new form that deploys a kaleidoscopic, theatrical panorama of voices to ask a timeless, profound question: How do we live and love when we know that everything we love must end?\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A luminous feat of generosity and humanism.\"--Colson Whitehead, \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e \"A masterpiece.\"\u003ci\u003e--\u003c\/i\u003eZadie Smith\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e George Saunders\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Random House\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/14\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.60w x 1.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780812995343\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/15\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/08\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2016 pg. 75\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/15\/2016 pg. 32\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/03\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGeorge Saunders\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of eight books, including the story collections \u003ci\u003ePastoralia \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Tenth of December, \u003c\/i\u003ewhich was a finalist for the National Book Award. He has received fellowships from the Lannan Foundation, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Guggenheim Foundation. In 2006 he was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. In 2013 he was awarded the PEN\/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction and was included in \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e's list of the one hundred most influential people in the world. He teaches in the creative writing program at Syracuse University.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"George Saunders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45613415203044,"sku":"9780812995343","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0611\/9587\/8628\/files\/9780812995343.jpg?v=1725868264"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookandmortar.com\/collections\/george-saunders.oembed","provider":"BookandMortar","version":"1.0","type":"link"}