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IN PERSUASION NATION

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Tiempo est. de lectura: 4h 55m

Sinopsis

Following his superb story collections Civilwarland in Bad Decline (1996) and Pastoralia (1999), as well as last year''s novella The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil, Saunders reaffirms his sharp, surreal vision of contemporary, media-saturated life, but keeps most of the elements within his familiar bandwidth. In the sweetly acerbic "My Flamboyant Grandson," a family trip through Times Square is overwhelmed by pop-up advertisements. In "Jon," orphans get sold to a market research firm and become famous as "Tastemakers & Trendsetters" (complete with trading cards). "CommComm" concerns an air force PR flunky living with the restless souls of his parents while covering for a spiraling crisis at work. The more conventionally grounded stories are the most compelling: one lingers over a bad Christmas among Chicago working stiffs, another follows a pair of old Russian-Jewish women haunted by memories of persecution. Others collapse under the weight of too much wit (the title story especially), and a few are little more than exercises in patience ("93990," "My Amendment"). But Saunders''s vital theme—the persistence of humanity in a vacuous, nefarious marketing culture of its own creation—comes through with subtlety and fresh turns.

Ficha Técnica

Editorial: Penguin Group Usa

ISBN: 9781594482427

Idioma: Inglés

Número de páginas: 240

Tiempo de lectura: 4h 55m

Fecha de lanzamiento: 14/12/2006

Año de edición: 2007

Plaza de edición: New York

Especificaciones del producto

Escrito por George Saunders

George Saunders va néixer a Amarillo, Texas, l’any 1958. És professor d’escriptura creativa a la Universitat de Syracuse i escriu per a la The New Yorker i per a altres revistes de prestigi. És autor de diversos llibres, entre els quals destaquen els reculls de relats "Secessiolàndia pel pedregar", "Pastoràlia" i "Deu de desembre", obra finalista del National Book Award 2013. La qualitat de la seva literatura és reconeguda internacionalment i ha rebut diversos guardons de prestigi, com ara els premis PEN/Malamud 2013 i Man Booker 2017, que va obtenir per "Lincoln al bardo". Les quatre obres esmentades han estat publicades per Edicions de 1984 en aquesta mateixa col·lecció.
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