Liberation day : stories

Author

George Saunders

Call Number

• LARGE TYPE FICTION SAUN (CEN)

Edition

Large print edition.

Publication Information

Waterville, ME : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2022.

Physical Description

327 pages (large print) ; 22 cm

Summary

"With his trademark prose--wickedly funny, unsentimental, and perfectly tuned--George Saunders continues to challenge and surprise: here is a collection of prismatic, deeply resonant stories that encompass joy and despair, oppression and revolution, bizarre fantasy and brutal reality. 'Love Letter' is a tender missive from grandfather to grandson, in the midst of a dystopian political situation in the not-too-distant future, that reminds us of our obligations to our ideals, ourselves, and each other. 'Ghoul' is set in a Hell-themed section of an underground amusement park in Colorado, and follows the exploits of a lonely, morally complex character named Brian, who comes to question everything he takes for granted about his 'reality.' In 'Mother's Day, ' two women who loved the same man come to an existential reckoning in the middle of a hailstorm. And in 'Elliott Spencer, ' our eighty-nine-year-old protagonist finds himself brainwashed--his memory 'scraped'--a victim of a scheme in which poor, vulnerable people are reprogrammed and deployed as political protesters. Together, these nine subversive, profound, and essential stories coalesce into a case for viewing the world with the same generosity and clear-eyed attention as Saunders does, even in the most absurd of circumstances"--

Notes

"Thorndike Press large print basic."

Contents

• Liberation day
• The mom of bold action
• Love letter
• A thing at work
• Sparrow
• Ghoul
• Mother's Day
• Elliot
• Spencer
• My house.