In Persuasion Nation pdf

George Saunders (né le 2 décembre 1958) est un écrivain américain de nouvelles, d'essais, de nouvelles, de livres pour enfants et de romans. Ses écrits ont été publiés dans The New Yorker, Harper's, McSweeney's et GQ. Il a également contribué une chronique hebdomadaire, American Psyche, au magazine du week-end The Guardian entre 2006 et 2008.
Professeur à l'Université de Syracuse, Saunders a remporté le National Magazine Award pour la fiction en 1994, 1996, 2000 et 2004, et le deuxième prix des O. Henry Awards en 1997. Son premier recueil d'histoires, CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, a été finaliste pour le prix PEN/Hemingway 1996. En 2006, Saunders a reçu une bourse MacArthur. En 2006, il a remporté le World Fantasy Award pour sa nouvelle "CommComm".
Son recueil d'histoires In Persuasion Nation a été finaliste pour le Story Prize en 2007. En 2013, il a remporté le PEN/Malamud Award et a été finaliste pour le National Book Award. Tenth of December: Stories de Saunders a remporté le Story Prize 2013 pour la collection de nouvelles et le premier (2014) Folio Prize. Son roman Lincoln in the Bardo (Bloomsbury Publishing) a remporté le Booker Prize 2017.

In Persuasion Nation pdf par 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 His new book includes both unpublished work, and stories that first appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, and Esquire.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.