A novella and short stories on a future America, a land of corporate hypocrisy, violence and pollution. Trendy attractions include pickled babies and cows with plexiglass sides, so you can see the milk made, people buy other people's more interesting memories for downloading into their heads.;CivilW
CivilWarLand in bad decline: stories and a novella: novella
β Scribed by George Saunders
- Publisher
- Random House
- Year
- 2012;2016
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 144 KB
- Edition
- 2016 Random House Trade Paperback Edition
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0812987683
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β¦ Synopsis
A novella and short stories on a future America, a land of corporate hypocrisy, violence and pollution. Trendy attractions include pickled babies and cows with plexiglass sides, so you can see the milk made, people buy other people's more interesting memories for downloading into their heads.;CivilWarLand in bad decline -- Isabelle -- The wavemaker falters -- The 400-pound CEO -- Offloading for Mrs. Schwartz -- Downtrodden Mary's failed campaign of terror -- Bounty.
β¦ Subjects
Stories and a Novella
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