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Nov 2, 2017 · George Saunders is the author of twelve books. His debut novel Lincoln in the Bardo won the 2017 Man Booker Prize and the Premio Rezzori prize. His collection Tenth of December was a finalist for the National Book Award and won the inaugural Folio Prize. He has received MacArthur and Guggenheim fellowships, the PEN/Malamud Prize for excellence ...
Tenth of December is inventive in practically every way imaginable, including plot, characterization, and, especially, prose. There is hardly a page that lacks some memorable phrase or stylistic ...
“Tenth of December shows George Saunders at his most subversive, hilarious, and emotionally piercing. Few writers can encompass that range of adjectives, but Saunders is a true original—restlessly inventive, yet deeply humane.” —Jennifer Egan, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad
Jan 8, 2013 · A hapless, deluded owner of an antiques store; two mothers struggling to do the right thing; a teenage girl whose idealism is challenged by a brutal brush with reality; a man tormented by a series of pharmaceutical experiments that force him to lust, to love, to kill—the unforgettable characters that populate the pages of Tenth of December ...
Jan 4, 2013 · "Tenth of December" is the new collection of stories from MacArthur "genius" award-winner George Saunders. And our reviewer, Alan Cheuse, says it's a book for everyone from serious students of the ...
Jan 24, 2013 · “Tenth of December” was announced on the cover of the Times Magazine as the best book people will read this year. Your readings have been drawing huge crowds. Your readings have been drawing ...
Jan 1, 2013 · Tenth of December. George Saunders. Bloomsbury, Jan 1, 2013 - Short stories - 251 pages. From the undisputed master of the short story, George Saunders, comes a dazzling and disturbing new collection. His most wryly hilarious work to date, Tenth of December illuminates human experience and explores figures lost in a labyrinth of troubling ...
