George Saunders has earned enthusiastic acclaim and a
devoted cult-following with his first two story collections
and the recent novella The Brief and Frightening Reign of
Phil. With his new book, In Persuasion Nation,
Saunders ups the ante in every way, and is poised to break
out to a wide new audience.
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 His new book includes both unpublished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.
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