Pastoralia
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A stunning collection including the story "Sea Oak," from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Man Booker Prize-winning novel Lincoln in the Bardo and the story collection Tenth of December, a 2013 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction. Hailed by Thomas Pynchon as "graceful, dark, authentic, and funny," George Saunders gives us, in his inventive and beloved voice, this bestselling collection of stories set against a warped, hilarious, and terrifyingly recognizable American landscape.
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Loved every story. It's hard to pick a favorite. Saunders humor just hits me right every time.
The second of Saunders' short story collections. Excellent; even better than the first.
I could not get into this one at all. The voices he chose for his characters really put me off. They seemed contrived, were hard to read and even harder to empathize with, and even Saunders seems to treat his characters with disdain. The overall tone of each story is hopeless and depressing. I stuck with it for a while because the stories were short and I was hoping there'd be some redemption, but I gave up by the time I got halfway through the cavemen story.
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