Description
In this inventive collection of twelve stories, George Saunders turns his sharp, surreal imagination on the anxieties of turn-of-the-millennium America. Satirizing consumer culture, corporate persuasion, media spectacle, social conformity, and the uneasy promises of technology, he populates familiar worlds with absurd rules and unsettling possibilities. From communities seized by irrational fears to individuals struggling against packaged identities and manufactured desires, these stories reveal the human cost of a society shaped by relentless messaging. Darkly comic, formally daring, and at times science-fictional, the collection showcases Saunders’s distinctive blend of compassion, linguistic playfulness, and bitter wit.
Available Editions
paperback
Riverhead Trade
Published Mar 6, 2007
240 pages
ISBN: 9781594482427
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Details
First Published
2006
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for In Persuasion Nation by George Saunders.