Pastoralia

Name: Pastoralia
Author: George Saunders

by George Saunders

Performers improvise roles in theme park facing indifferent audiences and existential absurdity

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George Saunders

American short-story writer and novelist whose satirical fiction skewers contemporary American culture with compassion and formal inventiveness. Lincoln in the Bardo won the Man Booker Prize in 2017. He is one of the most admired short-fiction writers of his generation.

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