CivilWarLand in bad decline: stories and a novella

✍ Scribed by George Saunders

• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Year: 2012;2016
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 142 KB
• Edition: 2016 Random House Trade Paperback Edition
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 0812987683

✦ Synopsis

One of the most influential works of modern American fiction is available for the first time as an eBook, featuring a new Author’s Note, as well as an Introduction by Joshua Ferris.
 
Since its publication in 1996, George Saunders’s debut collection has grown in estimation from a cherished cult classic to a masterpiece of the form and inspired an entire generation of writers. In six stories (“CivilWarLand in Bad Decline,” “Isabelle,” “The Wavemaker Falters,” “The 400-Pound CEO,” “Offloading for Mrs. Schwartz,” “Downtrodden Mary’s Failed Campaign of Terror”) and a novella (“Bounty”), Saunders introduces readers to an unforgettable cast of characters struggling to survive in an increasingly haywire world. With original commentary from Joshua Ferris and Saunders himself, this eBook edition is the perfect occasion to discover or revisit a virtuosic, uniquely...