![]() Previous collections feature characters whose work as reenactors (of the US civil war or prehistoric cave-dwelling) is absurdly arduous and meticulous, yet at the same time demeaning, poorly paid, and governed by strict, often absurd rules – in other words, much like most work. ![]() Wherever a Saunders story is set, it's never too far away from the theme park. His new collection, Tenth of December, is funny, poignant – in flashes, deeply moving – light as a feather, and consistently weird in the way that the suburbs are weird, which is to say quietly but intensely, under a surface as clean and bright as a newly waxed car. ![]() S ince 1996, with the publication of his first collection CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, George Saunders's flamboyant satires of American life have become a major influence on a generation of younger short story writers, both in the US and internationally. ![]()
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