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.