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050 00 $aPS3569.A7897$bE53 2000
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100 1 $aSaunders, George,$d1958-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n95046060
245 10 $aPastoralia /$cstories by George Saunders.
260 $aNew York :$bRiverhead Books,$c2000.
300 $a188 pages ;$c21 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
505 00 $tPastoralia --$tWinky --$tSea Oak --$tThe End of FIRPO in the World --$tThe Barber's Unhappiness --$tThe Falls.
520 1 $a"If Americans in the future were to try to send us a message about where our culture is heading, they might simply point to the fiction of George Saunders. Living in a world that's both indelibly original and hauntingly familiar, the characters in these stories bring to life our most absurd tendencies, and allow us to see ourselves in a shocking, uproariously funny new light.".
520 8 $a"Here you find people who live and work in a simulated, theme-park cave and communicate with their loved ones via fax machine. You encounter a family happily gathered around their favorite form of entertainment, a computer-generated TV show called The Worst That Could Happen. And you hear an upbeat self-help guru sermonize about how figuring out who's been "crapping in your oatmeal" will help raise your self-esteem.
520 8 $aWith an uncanny sense of how our culture reflects our character, Saunders mixes a deadpan naturalism with a wicked sense of humor to reveal a picture of contemporary America that's both feverishly strange and, through his characters' perseverance, oddly hopeful."--BOOK JACKET.
651 0 $aUnited States$xSocial life and customs$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100003
852 00 $bglx$hPS3569.A7897$iE53 2000
852 00 $bbar$hPS3569.A7897$iE53 2000