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    <![CDATA[Civil War Land in Bad Decline: Stories and a Novella]]>
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    <![CDATA[Funny, sad, bleak, weird, toxic - the future of America as  the Free Market runs rampant,the environment skids into disarray,  and civilization dissolves into surreal chaos.  These wacky, brilliant, hilarious and entirely original stories cue us in on George Saunder's  skewed vision of the legacy we are creating.  Against the backdrop of  our devolvement, our own worst tendencies and greatest virtues are  weirdly illuminated.]]>
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  <read_at>Fri Jul 25 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Perhaps it is unfair to <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1655.Mark_Twain" title="Mark Twain">George Saunders</a> to review <em><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28747.Civilwarland_in_Bad_Decline" title="Civilwarland in Bad Decline by George Saunders">Civil War Land in Bad Decline</a></em> when <em><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14295.Pastoralia" title="Pastoralia by George Saunders">Pastoralia</a></em> was the book that introduced me to him.  But that is the order in which they were read and so that is the order in which I evaluate them.  That being said, I suspect I may have been more pleased with this...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25973578">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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