The Brain-Dead Megaphone
Author(s): George Saunders
In "The Brain-dead Megaphone", Saunders trains his eye on the real world rather than the fictional for the first time, and shows that it too is brimming with wonderful, marvellous strangeness, whether it be in the surreal opulence of Dubai, the mind-bending self-denial of the Buddha Boy of Nepal, or even the seemingly mundane transactions of everyday American life. In the face of a political and cultural reality saturated with lazy media, false promises and political doublespeak, Saunders invokes the wisdom of the American literary heroes - Twain, Vonnegut, Barthelme - giving their work fresh relevance. In "The Brain-dead Megaphone", George Saunders reveals himself to be an entertaining and compassionate guide, a warm and wise reader, and a brilliant reporter with an eye for the surprising and revealing. Ultimately, this first collection of non-fiction will inspire us to re-examine our assumptions about the world we live in, and struggle to discover what is really there.
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AUTHOR PROFILE: George Saunders is a writer and journalist with an ever #45;increasing profile in the UK, and writes a weekly column for the Guardian MagazineTOPICAL SUBJECT MATTER: American culture and politics is always in the news post #45;Iraq and will be even more so in the run up to the 2008 Presidential Election
#39;George Saunders is a writer of arresting brilliance and originality #39; Tobias Wolff #39;Mr. Saunders #39; satiric vision of America is dark and demented; it is also ferocious and very funny #39; Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times #39;An astoundingly tuned voice - graceful, dark, authentic, and funny #39; Thomas Pynchon #39;A surrealist genius #39; GQ
George Saunders is the author of the novella The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil and three short story collections, In Persuasion Nation, Pastoralia and CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, as well as the children #39;s book, The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip. His work has received four National Magazine Awards, and has been selected for the O. Henry Awards and Best American Short Stories collections. In 1999, Saunders was recognized as one of the 20 best young American fiction writers by the New Yorker. He teaches in the creative writing program at Syracuse University.
General Fields
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- : Bloomsbury
- : bloomsbury
- : 01 April 2008
- : 216mm X 135mm
- : books
Special Fields
- : George Saunders
- : Paperback
- : 814.54