Books with author Gr Saunders

Easton Press GEORGE SAUNDERS: Lincoln in the Bardo, Signed Edition The #1 NY Times bestseller and winner of the Man Booker Prize ... Personally signed by George Saunders The unforgettable story of love and loss involving America's 16th President that breaks free of its realistic, historical framework into a supernatural realm both hilarious and terrifying. Reviewers praised the books as "A luminous feat of generosity and humanism" and "A masterpiece." This Easton Press exclusive edition is bound in genuine leather and features a hubbed spine accented with true 22kt gold, gilded page ends, moiré fabric endsheets, and a satin-ribbon bookmark to conveniently mark your place. 6 1/4" x 9 1/4", 360pp SIGNED EDITION Factory Sealed - Shrink Wrapped

'Saunders is an astoundingly tuned voice - graceful, dark, authentic and funny - telling just the kind of stories we need to get us through these times' Thomas PynchonIn PASTORALIA elements of contemporary life are twisted, merged and amplified into a slightly skewed version of modern America. A couple live and work in a caveman theme-park, where speaking is an instantly punishable offence. A born loser attends a self-help seminar where he is encouraged to rid himself of all the people who are 'crapping in your oatmeal'. And a male exotic dancer and his family are terrorised by their decomposing aunt who visits them with a solemn message from beyond the grave. With an uncanny combination of deadpan naturalism and uproarious humour, George Saunders creates a world that is both indelibly original and yet hauntingly familiar ...

February, 1862. The Civil War is less than one year old. The fighting has begun in earnest, and the nation has begun to realize it is in for a long and bloody struggle. Meanwhile, President Lincoln's beloved eleven-year-old son Willie lies upstairs in the White House, gravely ill. In a matter of days, despite predictions of a recovery, Willie dies and is laid to rest in a Georgetown cemetery. Newspapers report that a grief-stricken Lincoln returns alone to the crypt several times to hold his boy's body. From that seed of historical truth, George Saunders spins an unforgettable story of familial love and loss that breaks free of its realistic, historical framework into a thrilling, supernatural realm both hilarious and terrifying. Willie Lincoln finds himself in a strange purgatory where ghosts mingle, gripe, commiserate, quarrel, and enact bizarre acts of penance. Within this transitional state--called, in the Tibetan tradition, the bardo--a monumental struggle erupts over young Willie's soul.

High up in the mountains, far above the clouds, where the Earth meets the sky, there lived a lonely dragon... The dragon embarks on a great journey travelling far and wide, in search of a friend, another dragon, just like her... ...And in the end, she does find true friendship, but not quite in the way she imagined. This beautifully illustrated story, full of colour and sparkles, demonstrates the importance, and magic, of friendship. Written and illustrated by Zoe Saunders, in her signature sweet and whimsical style.