Pastoralia

Hailed by Thomas Pynchon as "graceful, dark, authentic, and funny," George Saunders now surpasses his New York Times Notable Book, CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, with this bestselling collection of stories set against a warped, hilarious, and terrifyingly recognizable American landscape.

Author Biography: George Saunders's stories have appeared in the New Yorker, Story, and Harper's, and have received three National Magazine Awards and appeared three times in the O. Henry Awards collections. He teaches in the Creative Writing Program at Syracuse University.