Book description
>
From the undisputed master of the short story, George Saunders, comes a
dazzling and disturbing new collection. His most wryly hilarious work to
date, 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;
Divisional Director Todd Birnie sends round a memo to employees he
thinks need some inspiration; Jeff faces horrifying ultimatums and the
prospect of Darkenfloxx!" in some unusual drug trials; and in an
auction of local celebrities Al Roosten hides his own internal monologue
behind a winning smile that he hopes will make him popular. Although, as
a young boy discovers, sometimes the voices fade and all you are left
with is a frozen hill on a cold day in December...
With dark visions of the future riffing against ghosts of the past and
the ever-settling present, Tenth of December
sings with astonishing charm and intensity, and re-affirms Saunders as
one of our greatest living storytellers. B>
Instantly astounding and enduringly haunting, one of America's greatest
writers gives us his most dazzling short story collection yet< >
From the undisputed master of the short story, George Saunders, comes a
dazzling and disturbing new collection. His most wryly hilarious work to
date, 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;
Divisional Director Todd Birnie sends round a memo to employees he
thinks need some inspiration; Jeff faces horrifying ultimatums and the
prospect of Darkenfloxx!" in some unusual drug trials; and in an
auction of local celebrities Al Roosten hides his own internal monologue
behind a winning smile that he hopes will make him popular. Although, as
a young boy discovers, sometimes the voices fade and all you are left
with is a frozen hill on a cold day in December...
With dark visions of the future riffing against ghosts of the past and
the ever-settling present, Tenth of December
sings with astonishing charm and intensity, and re-affirms Saunders as
one of our greatest living storytellers. B>
Instantly astounding and enduringly haunting, one of America's greatest
writers gives us his most dazzling short story collection yet<
