Perhaps the funniest and potentially the grimmest is Home, which is. One of the most important and blazingly original writers of his generation, George Saunders is an undisputed master of the short story, and Tenth. ** ESCAPE FROM SPIDERHEAD NOW STREAMING ON NETFLIX – STARRING CHRIS HEMSWORTH AND MILES TELLER** The prize-winning, New York Times bestselling short story collection from the internationally bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo ‘The best book you’ll read this year’ New York Times ‘Dazzlingly surreal stories about a failing America’ Sunday TimesWINNER OF THE 2014 FOLIO PRIZE AND SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2013George Saunders’s most wryly hilarious and disturbing collection yet, Tenth of December illuminates human experience and explores figures lost in a labyrinth of troubling preoccupations.A family member recollects a backyard pole dressed for all occasions Jeff faces horrifying ultimatums and the prospect of Darkenfloxx(TM) in some unusual drug trials and Al Roosten hides his own internal monologue behind a winning smile that he hopes will make him popular.With dark visions of the future riffing against ghosts of the past and the ever-settling present, this collection sings with astonishing charm and intensity. One story is cast as a managers memo another takes the form of a very strange diary. Saunderss latest collection of short stories, Tenth of December, is split equally between realism and science fiction, but the basic drive is the. Most of the stories in Tenth of December are like this: They grapple in a forthright way with forthright moral questions.

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