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CivilWarLand in bad decline : stories and a novella / George Saunders.

by Saunders, George, 1958-

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Random House, c1996.

American Dream -- Fiction.

9781573225793 (1997 Riverhead trade pbk.)

Alternate title:

Civil War land in bad decline

179 p. ; 22 cm.

CivilWarLand in bad decline -- Isabelle -- The wavemaker falters -- The 400-pound CEO -- Offloading for Mrs. Schwartz -- Downtrodden Mary's failed campaign of terror -- Bounty.

In these pages, the dark underbelly of the American dream: the losses, delusions, and terrors suffered by the lonely, the disenfranchised, the downtrodden and the plain unlucky. . . . Bizarre events pop up regularly in CivilWarLand like road signs on a highway, directing the reader toward the dark heart of Mr. Saunders's America. What powers the stories along is Mr. Saunders's wonderfully demented language, his ear for absurdity and slang, his own patented blend of psychobabble, techno-talk and existential angst.

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