George Saunders follows the brilliant Pastoralia with another fiercely inventive collection. Again his stories are set in a warped, hilarious, and very recognisable American landscape - maybe in the near future, or a parallel world where people work in a service sector economy gone mad. In I Can Speak! we hear the merits of the I Can Speak latex mask, which sticks with Velcro onto the face of your baby and simulates grown-up baby-talk, to the envy of your friends. In The Red Bow a village is in crisis when a deadly canine virus takes hold and a young girl is killed by a feverous dog. Her father finds the evidence- the little red bow from her hair. Jon is a wry look at a futuristic world where Tastemakers & Trendsetters live in privileged confinement. By turns touching, funny and sad, this is an extraordinary, utterly compelling collection.
George Saunders follows the brilliant Pastoralia with another fiercely inventive collection. Again his stories are set in a warped, hilarious, and very recognisable American landscape - maybe in the near future, or a parallel world where people work in a service sector economy gone mad. In I Can Speak! we hear the merits of the I Can Speak latex mask, which sticks with Velcro onto the face of your baby and simulates grown-up baby-talk, to the envy of your friends. In The Red Bow a village is in crisis when a deadly canine virus takes hold and a young girl is killed by a feverous dog. Her father finds the evidence- the little red bow from her hair. Jon is a wry look at a futuristic world where Tastemakers & Trendsetters live in privileged confinement. By turns touching, funny and sad, this is an extraordinary, utterly compelling collection.