The Brain-Dead Megaphone by George Saunders (English) Paperback Book

Description: The Brain-Dead Megaphone by George Saunders In the same vein as his much-loved weekly column for the Guardian Magazine, this is a hilarious and incisive collection of essays from George Saunders. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description In this, his first collection of essays, Saunders trains his eye on the real world rather than the fictional and reveals it to be brimming with wonderful, marvellous strangeness. As he faces a political and cultural reality saturated with lazy media, false promises and political doublespeak, Saunders invokes the wisdom of American literary heroes Twain, Vonnegut and Barthelme and inspires us to re-examine our assumptions about the world we live in, as we struggle to discover what is really there. Author Biography George Saunders is the author of nine books, including the No. 1 New York Times bestselling novel Lincoln in the Bardo and the New York Times bestselling Tenth of December, which won the Folio Prize 2014 and was a finalist for the National Book Award 2013. He has received MacArthur and Guggenheim Fellowships, the PEN/Malamud Prize for excellence in the short story, and in 2013 was listed by Time as one of the worlds 100 Most Influential People. He teaches in the Creative Writing Program at Syracuse University.georgesaundersbooks.com Review Deceptively light ... deadpan funny ... Saunders, as an American social and literary critic, may be shaping up as the Orwell of the millennium * The Times *Not since Twain has America produced a satirist this funny * Zadie Smith *Saunders is a warm and funny guide through familiar and foreign landscapes ... His job is to observe and be funny ... in a tone often reminiscent of Bill Bryson * Observer *Again and again, Saunders demonstrates that wacky, subversive, formally strange writing is not only contrary to our nations capitalist spirit, its the most natural and effective of responses to it. He makes the all-but-impossible look effortless. Were lucky to have him * Jonathan Franzen, author of The Corrections * Promotional A hilarious and incisive collection of essays from George Saunders, No. 1 New York Times bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo Review Quote Deceptively light ... deadpan funny ... Saunders, as an American social and literary critic, may be shaping up as the Orwell of the millennium Promotional "Headline" A hilarious and incisive collection of essays from George Saunders, the No. 1 New York Times bestselling author of the 2017 Man Booker Prize winner Lincoln in the Bardo Feature George Saunders is the internationally bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo and the Folio Prize-winning, New York Times bestselling short story collection Tenth of December, among other books. Details ISBN1408894823 Author George Saunders Pages 272 ISBN-10 1408894823 ISBN-13 9781408894828 Format Paperback Year 2017 Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Media Book DEWEY 814.6 Language English Publication Date 2017-11-02 UK Release Date 2017-11-02 NZ Release Date 2017-11-02 Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Audience General AU Release Date 2017-11-30 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:116634205;

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