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Six short stories and a novella. Set in a dystopian near-future in which America has become little more than a theme park in terminal disrepair, they constitute a searching and bitterly humorous commentary on the current state of the American Dream.

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"One of the few living masters of the [short story] genre" (Daily Telegraph)

"Surreal and puncturing" (Margaret Atwood)

"There is no author I recommend to people more often - for ten years I've urged George Saunders onto everyone and everyone." (Dave Eggers)

"[A] brilliant collection of short stories" (Philip Hensher Mail on Sunday)

"Strangely moving, hilariously unsettling, and unlike anything else you'll read this year" (Esquire)
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  • PublisherJonathan Cape Ltd
  • Publication date1996
  • ISBN 10 0224042475
  • ISBN 13 9780224042475
  • BindingPaperback
  • Number of pages224
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