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Tenth of December

By: George Saunders
Narrated by: George Saunders
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Publisher's Summary

Winner: The Folio Prize 2014

From the undisputed master of the short story comes a dazzling and disturbing new collection. A family member recollects a backyard pole dressed for all occasions; Divisional Director Todd Birnie sends round a memo to employees he thinks need some inspiration; and in an auction of local celebrities Al Roosten hides his own internal monologue behind a winning smile. Although, as a young boy discovers, sometimes the voices fade and all you are left with is a frozen hill on a cold day in December...

©2013 George Saunders (P)2013 W F Howes Ltd
Literary Fiction
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"Saunders, as an American social and literary critic, may be shaping up as the Orwell of the millennium" ( The TImes)
"He makes the all-but-impossible look effortless" (Jonathan Franzen)
"Not since Twain has America produced a satirist this funny with a prose style this fine" (Zadie Smith)
"There’s something so wildly magnanimous about these stories that you want to force them on everyone you meet for the good of mankind" ( Daily Telegraph)

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