{"title":"George Saunders PDF E-Books","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"liberation-day","title":"Liberation Day","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBESTSELLER - \"One of our most inventive purveyors of the form returns with pitch-perfect, genre-bending stories that stare into the abyss of our national character. . . . An exquisite work from a writer whose reach is galactic.\"--\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOprah Daily\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBooker Prize winner George Saunders returns with his first collection of short stories since the\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ebestseller\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTenth of December.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR:\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, Oprah Daily,\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNPR,\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTime, USA Today, The Guardian, Esquire, Kirkus Reviews, Booklist, Library Journal\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe \"best short-story writer in English\" (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTime\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e) is back with a masterful collection that explores ideas of power, ethics, and justice and cuts to the very heart of what it means to live in community with our fellow humans. With his trademark prose--wickedly funny, unsentimental, and exquisitely tuned--Saunders continues to challenge and surprise: Here is a collection of prismatic, resonant stories that encompass joy and despair, oppression and revolution, bizarre fantasy and brutal reality.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"Love Letter\" is a tender missive from grandfather to grandson, in the midst of a dystopian political situation in the (not too distant, all too believable) future, that reminds us of our obligations to our ideals, ourselves, and one another. \"Ghoul\" is set in a Hell-themed section of an underground amusement park in Colorado and follows the exploits of a lonely, morally complex character named Brian, who comes to question everything he takes for granted about his reality. In \"Mother's Day,\" two women who loved the same man come to an existential reckoning in the middle of a hailstorm. In \"Elliott Spencer,\" our eighty-nine-year-old protagonist finds himself brainwashed, his memory \"scraped\"--a victim of a scheme in which poor, vulnerable people are reprogrammed and deployed as political protesters. And \"My House\"--in a mere seven pages--comes to terms with the haunting nature of unfulfilled dreams and the inevitability of decay.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTogether, these nine subversive, profound, and essential stories coalesce into a case for viewing the world with the same generosity and clear-eyed attention Saunders does, even in the most absurd of circumstances.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Good E-Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45611826250002,"sku":"","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0743\/1009\/1026\/files\/LiberationDay.jpg?v=1688987259"},{"product_id":"in-persuasion-nation","title":"In Persuasion Nation","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ebestselling author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eTenth of December\u003c\/i\u003e, a 2013 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTalking candy bars, baby geniuses, disappointed mothers, castrated dogs, interned teenagers, and moral fables—all in this hilarious and heartbreaking collection from an author hailed as the heir to Kurt Vonnegut and Thomas Pynchon.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"The first thing you ought to know is that Saunders is the funniest writer in America... [But] Saunders's laughs are a cover, a diversion, beneath which reside some profoundly serious intentions regarding the morality of how we live and hte power of love and immanent death to transform us into vastly better creatures... I can't think of another writer who would try to do what Saunders is doing, or anything close to it. This is an important book.\"—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Saunders is a hilarious, wicked, and pitch-perfect satirist of our times, of course, but for a satirist he has a whole lot of heart.\"—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eEsquire.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Good E-Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51812601692434,"sku":null,"price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0743\/1009\/1026\/files\/InPersuasionNation.jpg?v=1766491786"},{"product_id":"lincoln-in-the-bardo","title":"Lincoln in the Bardo","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e#1\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eBESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe “devastatingly moving” (\u003ci\u003ePeople\u003c\/i\u003e) first novel from the author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eTenth of December\u003c\/i\u003e: a moving and original father-son story featuring none other than Abraham Lincoln, as well as an unforgettable cast of supporting characters, living and dead, historical and invented\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed One of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003ePaste\u003c\/i\u003e’s Best Novels of the Decade • Named One of the Ten Best Books of the Year by\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post, USA Today,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eand Maureen Corrigan, NPR • One of \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e’s Ten Best Novels of the Year • A \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003eNotable Book • One of \u003ci\u003eO: The Oprah Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e’s Best Books of the Year\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFebruary 1862. The Civil War is less than one year old. The fighting has begun in earnest, and the nation has begun to realize it is in for a long, bloody struggle. Meanwhile, President Lincoln’s beloved eleven-year-old son, Willie, lies upstairs in the White House, gravely ill. In a matter of days, despite predictions of a recovery, Willie dies and is laid to rest in a Georgetown cemetery. “My poor boy, he was too good for this earth,” the president says at the time. “God has called him home.” Newspapers report that a grief-stricken Lincoln returns, alone, to the crypt several times to hold his boy’s body.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom that seed of historical truth, George Saunders spins an unforgettable story of familial love and loss that breaks free of its realistic, historical framework into a supernatural realm both hilarious and terrifying. Willie Lincoln finds himself in a strange purgatory where ghosts mingle, gripe, commiserate, quarrel, and enact bizarre acts of penance. Within this transitional state—called, in the Tibetan tradition, the bardo—a monumental struggle erupts over young Willie’s soul.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLincoln in the Bardo\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is an astonishing feat of imagination and a bold step forward from one of the most important and influential writers of his generation. Formally daring, generous in spirit, deeply concerned with matters of the heart, it is a testament to fiction’s ability to speak honestly and powerfully to the things that really matter to us. Saunders has invented a thrilling new form that deploys a kaleidoscopic, theatrical panorama of voices to ask a timeless, profound question: How do we live and love when we know that everything we love must end?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A luminous feat of generosity and humanism.”—Colson Whitehead,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“A masterpiece.”\u003ci\u003e—\u003c\/i\u003eZadie Smith\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Good E-Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51812603887890,"sku":null,"price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0743\/1009\/1026\/files\/LincolnintheBardo.jpg?v=1766491902"},{"product_id":"fox-8","title":"Fox 8","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the #1\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ebestselling author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eLincoln in the Bardo,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003ea darkly comic short story about the unintended consequences unleashed by our quest to tame the natural world—featuring gorgeous black-and-white illustrations by Chelsea Cardinal.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFox 8 has always been known as the daydreamer in his pack, the one his fellow foxes regard with a knowing snort and a roll of the eyes. That is, until he develops a unique skill: He teaches himself to speak “Yuman” by hiding in the bushes outside a house and listening to children’s bedtime stories. 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A hapless, deluded owner of an antiques store; two mothers struggling to do the right thing; a teenage girl whose idealism is challenged by a brutal brush with reality; a man tormented by a series of pharmaceutical experiments that force him to lust, to love, to kill--the unforgettable characters that populate the pages of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eTenth of December\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eare vividly and lovingly infused with Saunders's signature blend of exuberant prose, deep humanity, and stylistic innovation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWriting brilliantly and profoundly about class, sex, love, loss, work, despair, and war, Saunders cuts to the core of the contemporary experience. 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