George Saunders

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This timely volume explores the signal contribution George Saunders has made to the development of the short story form in books ranging from<i>CivilWarLand in Bad Decline</i> (1996) to<i>Tenth of December</i>(2013). The book brings together a team of scholars from around the world to explore topics ranging from Saunderss treatment of work and religion to biopolitics and the limits of the short story form. It also includes an interview with Saunders specially conducted for the volume, and a preliminary bibliography of his published works and critical responses to an expanding and always exciting creative ½uvre. Coinciding with the release of the Saunders first novel,<i>Lincoln in the Bardo</i> (2017<i>), George Saunders: Critical Essays</i> is the first book-length consideration of a major contemporary authors work. It is essential reading for anyone interested in twenty-first century fiction.

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<div><div>Philip Coleman is Associate Professor and Fellow at the School of English, Trinity College Dublin. His most recent books are John Berrymans Public Vision: re-locating the scene of disorder (2014), Berrymans Fate: A Centenary Celebration in Verse (2014), and Critical Insights: David Foster Wallace (2015). He is currently co-editing a volume of John Berrymans letters.</div><div><br></div><div>Steve Gronert Ellerhoff completed a PhD in the School of English, Trinity College Dublin, in 2014. His thesis was published as Post-Jungian Psychology and the Short Stories of Ray Bradbury and Kurt Vonnegut: Golden Apples of the Monkey House (2016). He is also the author of a novel, Times Laughingstocks (2013), a collection of short stories, Tales From the Internet (2015), and other fiction appearing online and in print.</div></div>

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