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Jan 3, 2013 · Unsettling, insightful, and hilarious, the stories in Tenth of December—through their manic energy, their focus on what is redeemable in human beings, and their generosity of spirit—not only entertain and delight; they fulfill Chekhov's dictum that art should "prepare us for tenderness."
Tenth of December is a collection of short stories by American author George Saunders. It contains stories published in various magazines between 1995 and 2012. The book was published on January 8, 2013, by Random House. One of the stories, "Home", was a 2011 Bram Stoker Award finalist.
In “Tenth of December,” a young boy named Robin heads out in freezing weather, having an imagined conversation with a girl he likes. He sees Don Eber, a middle-aged man with a brain tumor, walking ahead of him without a coat; Eber intends to die by suicide to avoid his family watching him suffer.
George Saunders's "Tenth of the December" is a short story in the author's 2013 collection of the same name. It is a narratively disjointed short story that tracks the...
Oct 24, 2011 · Published in the print edition of the October 31, 2011, issue, with the headline “Tenth of December.” George Saunders won the 2017 Booker Prize for “ Lincoln in the Bardo .”
Oct 27, 2019 · "Tenth of December" is one of the freshest and most compelling contemporary short stories, but it is almost impossible to talk about the story and its meaning without making it sound trite: something along the lines of, "A boy helps a suicidal man find the will to live," or, "A suicidal man learns to appreciate the beauty of life."
Jan 7, 2014 · Unsettling, insightful, and hilarious, the stories in Tenth of December —through their manic energy, their focus on what is redeemable in human beings, and their generosity of spirit—not only entertain and delight; they fulfill Chekhov’s dictum that art should “prepare us for tenderness.”
Jan 8, 2013 · Unsettling, insightful, and hilarious, the stories in Tenth of December—through their manic energy, their focus on what is redeemable in human beings, and their generosity...
Jan 14, 2013 · If his earlier books reverberated with echoes of Nathanael West and Kurt Vonnegut, Mr. Saunders’s latest offering, “Tenth of December,” seems to have more in common with Sherwood Anderson ...
George Saunders's most wryly hilarious and disturbing collection yet, Tenth of December illuminates human experience and explores figures lost in a labyrinth of...
