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So begins The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil. Fueled by Saunders's unrivaled wit, outlandish imagination, and incisive political sensibility, here is a deeply strange yet strangely familiar fable of power and impotence, justice and injustice--an Animal Farm for our times. Praise for George Saunders Author of Pastoralia and Civilwarland in Bad Decline "An astoundingly tuned voice--graceful, dark, authentic, and funny--telling just the kinds of stories we need to get us through these times." --Thomas Pynchon "Mr. Saunders writes like the illegitimate offspring of Nathanael West and Kurt Vonnegut. [His] satiric vision of America is dark and demented; it is also ferocious and very funny." --Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times "A master of distilling the disorders of our time into fiction." --Salon.com

]]> 8885 3.96 9291 1408 2005 2 1 false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu Dec 06 12:54:11 -0800 2007 Sat Jun 06 12:53:01 -0700 2009 The Braindead Megaphone, I figured I would like his short stories even better, that being what he's better-known for. Since this book is, essentially, a single short story, I started with this one. I didn't like it. Saunders' language and the world it descr...more...]]>