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Pastoralia is short story writer George Saunders’s second full-length short story collection, published in 2000. The collection received highly positive reviews from book critics and was ranked the fifth-greatest book of the 2000s by literary magazine The Millions.
May 1, 2000 · The stories in Pastoralia are set in a slightly skewed version of America, where elements of contemporary life have been merged, twisted, and amplified, casting their absurdity—and our humanity—in a startling new light.
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Mar 26, 2000 · Published in the print edition of the April 3, 2000, issue, with the headline “Pastoralia.” George Saunders won the 2017 Booker Prize for “ Lincoln in the Bardo .” He is the author of ...
Jun 1, 2001 · Pastoralia is a masterpiece of unsettling comedy.” — San Diego Union Tribune “Artful and sophisticated. . . .truly unusual. Imagine Lewis’s Babbitt thrown into the back seat of a car going cross-country, driven by R. Crumb, Matt Groening, Lynda Barry, Harvey Pekar or Spike Jonze.
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Pastoralia is a 2000 collection of short stories by American writer George Saunders. Five of the collection’s six stories won the O. Henry Prize. One of these, the title novella, “Pastoralia,” is about a man who works in an entertainment complex portraying a caveman and also lives in his “cave.”
May 1, 2000 · The stories in Pastoralia are set in a slightly skewed version of America, where elements of contemporary life have been merged, twisted, and amplified, casting their absurdity—and our humanity—in a startling new light.
Pastoralia is a masterpiece of unsettling comedy.” —San Diego Union Tribune “Artful and sophisticated. . . .truly unusual. Imagine Lewis’s Babbitt thrown into the back seat of a car going cross-country, driven by R. Crumb, Matt Groening, Lynda Barry, Harvey Pekar or Spike Jonze.
