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Publication Name: Penguin Publishing Group

ISBN: 9781573225793

Book Title: Civilwarland in Bad Decline : Stories and a Novella

Item Length: 8 in

Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group

Publication Year: 1997

Format: Uk-B Format Paperback

Language: English

Item Height: 0.4 in

Author: George Saunders

Features: Reprint

Genre: Fiction

Topic: Short Stories (Single Author), Humorous / General

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Item Weight: 5.1 Oz

Number of Pages: 192 Pages

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From the New York Times bestselling author of Tenth of December , a 2013 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction, and the novel Lincoln in the Bardo . A New York Times Notable Book Six short stories and a novella. Set in a dystopian near-future in which America has become little more than a theme park in terminal disrepair, they constitute a searching and bitterly humorous commentary on the current state of the American Dream. 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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Book Title

Civilwarland in Bad Decline : Stories and a Novella

Author

George Saunders

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Uk-B Format Paperback

Language

English

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Reprint

Topic

Short Stories (Single Author), Humorous / General

Publication Year

1997

Genre

Fiction

Number of Pages

192 Pages

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8 in

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0.4 in

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5.2 in

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5.1 Oz

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Ps3569.A7897c58 1997

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1997-02-01

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Praise for CivilWarLand in Bad Decline: A New York Times Notable Book "An astoundingly tuned voicegraceful, dark, authentic, and funnytelling just the kinds of stories we need to get us through these times."Thomas Pynchon "The dystopian short story is alive and kicking, wearing a black leather jacketmaybe stolen in a barroom brawland telling deadly dark, off-color jokes. His name is George Saunders, and he's half-huckster, half-saâ« he's got shades of both Denis Johnson and Raymond Chandler.... By turns he's ferocious, witty, and uproarious, but what makes his fiction memorable is the gravitas of its dark portraiture of America." The Boston Globe "Ingenious...full of savage humor and originality [and] scorching brilliance...the author creates a nightmarish post-apocalyptic world that might have been envisioned by Walt Disney on acid." The Philadelphia Inquirer "Alarming and funny...Saunders invites comparison less to Aldous Huxley than to Kurt Vonnegut.... A debut of an original, darkly funny voice." The Atlantic Journal-Constitution "A savage satirist with a sentimental streak who delineates, in these pages, the dark underbelly of the American dream...Mr. Saunder's satiric vision of America is dark and demented; it is also ferocious and very funny."Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times, Praise for CivilWarLand in Bad Decline: A New York Times Notable Book "An astoundingly tuned voice-graceful, dark, authentic, and funny-telling just the kinds of stories we need to get us through these times."-Thomas Pynchon "The dystopian short story is alive and kicking, wearing a black leather jacket-maybe stolen in a barroom brawl-and telling deadly dark, off-color jokes. His name is George Saunders, and he's half-huckster, half-saâˆ« he's got shades of both Denis Johnson and Raymond Chandler.... By turns he's ferocious, witty, and uproarious, but what makes his fiction memorable is the gravitas of its dark portraiture of America."- The Boston Globe "Ingenious...full of savage humor and originality [and] scorching brilliance...the author creates a nightmarish post-apocalyptic world that might have been envisioned by Walt Disney on acid."- The Philadelphia Inquirer "Alarming and funny...Saunders invites comparison less to Aldous Huxley than to Kurt Vonnegut.... A debut of an original, darkly funny voice."- The Atlantic Journal-Constitution "A savage satirist with a sentimental streak who delineates, in these pages, the dark underbelly of the American dream...Mr. Saunder's satiric vision of America is dark and demented; it is also ferocious and very funny."-Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

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by 8U-0xKqrSEq@Deleted
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High starting point for since-accomplished writer
To my knowledge, "CivilWarLand in Bad Decline" is George Saunders' second collection of short stories. It serves as a likely precursor to "Pastoralia," a collection in which the title story also takes place in an imagined historical re-enactment theme park. His deeply satirical voice seems under development here, as do his plots. The main characters in "CivilWarLand" are profoundly tragic, most of them pariahs. They show hope of bettering their stations--as the morbidly obese and subsequently outcast Jeffrey in "The 400-Pound CEO" puts it, "My heart's some kind of idiotic fishing bobber,"--but normally turn out lower than they started. There is actually a character called Downtrodden Mary, and that she is. Saunders verbalizes his cynicism in a way matched by no current writers known ... To my knowledge, "CivilWarLand in Bad Decline" is George Saunders' second collection of short stories. It serves as a likely precursor to "Pastoralia," a collection in which the title story also takes place in an imagined historical re-enactment theme park. His deeply satirical voice seems under development here, as do his plots. The main characters in "CivilWarLand" are profoundly tragic, most of them pariahs. They show hope of bettering their stations--as the morbidly obese and subsequently outcast Jeffrey in "The 400-Pound CEO" puts it, "My heart's some kind of idiotic fishing bobber,"--but normally turn out lower than they started. There is actually a character called Downtrodden Mary, and that she is. Saunders verbalizes his cynicism in a way matched by no current writers known by this reviewer. He, like most successful writers of heartwrenching tales, is necessarily very funny. His humor is no more gentle than his critique, and often happens in the same phrases. Most of his stories refer to the employer-employee relationship and so the use of managerial "business speak" contributes to the humor. This passage is from "Downtrodden Mary's Failed Campaign of Terror:" I get up to leave and he asks what's next on my agenda. I say Break. He says not so fast and orders me to clean up some vomit from near the Pickled Babies. I ask him please no. Three stillborns was my lot and the Pickled Babies first thing in the morning is too much. But he cheerfully recites the Employee Loyalty Oath and says he's not in the mood to negotiate and tells me to please shake a leg for Christ's sake. Perhaps a better of the work site language comes from the collection's novella, "Bounty:" "Heads out of butts, everybody," Oberlin says. "Fun's over. Unless I'm mistaken we still have valued Clients to transport to a time of quaint enchantment." The mix of slang and elevated language makes for hysterical contrasts which no one person may ever actually speak, but are perfectly imaginable. His stories always involve absurd elements and often the spectral, which tend to compound the absurdity. While many of the occurances are impossible, the quality of life is identifiable and as real as the dirt under your fingernails. "CivilWarLand" is very good writing on the cusp of something great. The missing element, as I can identify it, is the imagination to create storylines that go beyond pointing out futility, and do so gracefully. For this, look to Saunders' more recent work, "Pastoralia," and "The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil," though I haven't read his most recent "In Persuasion Nation." His books are quick reads, two or three days for me and I'm a slow reader. When in the midst of reading his work, it's difficult to ponder much else.
by wrE10cRfRuK@Deleted
Nov 23, 2020
Unreadable.
This book was awful. The stories were contrived, hard to follow, minimal plotlines, and did not hold my interest -- frankly boring. This is a genre to which I cannot relate.This book came highly recommended. What a disappointment. (The book itself, the hard copy, was perfectly fine.)
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