Description
Title: Pastoralia
Author: SAUNDERS GEORGE
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 02/11/2017
Imprint: BLOOMSBURY
Price: $23.00
Publishing status: Active
‘Saunders is an astoundingly tuned voice – graceful, dark, authentic and funny – telling just the kind of stories we need to get us through these times’ Thomas Pynchon
In PASTORALIA elements of contemporary life are twisted, merged and amplified into a slightly skewed version of modern America. A couple live and work in a caveman theme-park, where speaking is an instantly punishable offence. A born loser attends a self-help seminar where he is encouraged to rid himself of all the people who are ‘crapping in your oatmeal’. And a male exotic dancer and his family are terrorised by their decomposing aunt who visits them with a solemn message from beyond the grave. With an uncanny combination of deadpan naturalism and uproarious humour, George Saunders creates a world that is both indelibly original and yet hauntingly familiar …
ISBN: 9781408870532
Weight: 160g
Dimension: 198mm X 128mm
Pages: 208