George Saunders
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George Saunders follows the brilliant <i>Pastoralia</i> with another fiercely inventive collection. Again his stories are set in a warped, hilarious,
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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>I Can Speak!</i> 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 <i>The Red Bow</i> 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. <i>Jon</i> 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.
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