CivilWarLand in Bad Decline

CivilWarLand in Bad Decline
CivilWarLand in Bad Decline  
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Author(s) George Saunders
Country United States
Language English
Publisher Random House
Publication date January, 1996
Media type Print (Hardcover)
Pages 192 p.
ISBN 1-57322-579-7

CivilWarLand in Bad Decline is short story writer George Saunders’s first full length short story collection, published in 1996; it is 192 pages long. The collection has many stories that appeared in different forms in Kenyon Review, Harper's, The New Yorker and Quarterly West. The collection was a New York Times Notable Book for 1996, as well as a finalist for the 1996 PEN/Hemingway Award.

Contents

  • "CivilWarLand in Bad Decline" (Kenyon Review, 1992)
  • "Isabelle" (Indiana Review, 1994; reprinted in Harper's, 1994)
  • "The Wavemaker Falters" (Witness, 1993)
  • "The 400-Pound CEO" (Harper's, 1993)
  • "Offloading for Mrs. Schwartz" (The New Yorker, 1992)
  • "Downtrodden Mary's Failed Campaign of Terror" (Quarterly West, 1992)
  • "Bounty" (Harper's, 1995)

Awards, Honors and Other Appearances

  • "Bounty" won the 1995 National Magazine Award for Fiction.

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