In Persuasion Nation PDF

George Saunders (* 2. Dezember 1958 in London) ist ein US-amerikanischer Autor von Kurzgeschichten, Essays, Novellen, Kinderbüchern und Romanen. Seine Texte sind in The New Yorker, Harper's, McSweeney's und GQ erschienen. Zwischen 2006 und 2008 schrieb er auch eine wöchentliche Kolumne, American Psyche, für das Wochenendmagazin von The Guardian.
Als Professor an der Syracuse University gewann Saunders 1994, 1996, 2000 und 2004 den National Magazine Award für Belletristik und 1997 den zweiten Preis bei den O. Henry Awards. Seine erste Geschichtensammlung, CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, war Finalist für der PEN/Hemingway-Preis 1996. 2006 erhielt Saunders ein MacArthur-Stipendium. 2006 gewann er den World Fantasy Award für seine Kurzgeschichte „CommComm“.
Seine Geschichtensammlung In Persuasion Nation war 2007 Finalist für den Story Prize. 2013 gewann er den PEN/Malamud Award und war Finalist für den National Book Award. Saunders' Tenth of December: Stories gewann 2013 den Story Prize für die Sammlung von Kurzgeschichten und den ersten (2014) Folio Prize. Sein Roman Lincoln in the Bardo (Bloomsbury Publishing) gewann 2017 den Booker Prize.

In Persuasion Nation pdf von George Saunders

The stories In Persuasion Nation are easily his best work yet. "The Red Bow," about a town consumed by pet-killing hysteria, won a 2004 National Magazine Award and "Bohemians," the story of two supposed Eastern European widows trying to fit in in suburban USA, is included in The Best American Short Stories 2005. His new book includes both unpublished work, and stories that first appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, and Esquire. The stories in this volume work together as a whole whose impact far exceeds the simple sum of its parts. Fans of Saunders know and love him for his sharp and hilarious satirical eye. But In Persuasion Nation also includes more personal and poignant pieces that reveal a new kind of emotional conviction in Saunders's writing.
Saunders's work in the last six years has come to be recognized as one of the strongest—and most consoling—cries in the wilderness of the millennium's political and cultural malaise. In Persuasion Nation's sophistication and populism should establish Saunders once and for all as this generation's literary voice of wisdom and humor in a time when we need it most.