In Persuasion Nation

In Persuasion Nation

<b>From the #1 <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of the Man Booker Prize-winning novel <b><i>Lincoln in the Bardo</i> and the story collection </b><i>Tenth of December</i>, a 2013 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction.</b><br><br> Talking candy bars, baby geniuses, disappointed mothers, castrated dogs, interned teenagers, and moral fables€"all in this hilarious and heartbreaking collection from an author hailed as the heir to Kurt Vonnegut and Thomas Pynchon.<br>  <br> "The first thing you ought to know is that Saunders is the funniest writer in America... [But] Saunders's laughs are a cover, a diversion, beneath which reside some profoundly serious intentions regarding the morality of how we live and hte power of love and immanent death to transform us into vastly better creatures... I can't think of another writer who would try to do what Saunders is doing, or anything close to it. This is an important book."€"<i>The Nation</i><br><br> "Saunders is a hilarious, wicked, and pitch-perfect satirist of our times, of course, but for a satirist he has a whole lot of heart."€"<i>Esquire</i>