{"product_id":"in-persuasion-nation","title":"In Persuasion Nation","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of the Man Booker Prize-winning novel \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLincoln in the Bardo\u003c\/i\u003e and the story collection \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eTenth of December\u003c\/i\u003e, a 2013 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"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 the 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.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"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.\"--\u003ci\u003eEsquire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 159448242X\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9781594482427\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Saunders, George, N\/A, N\/A\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Riverhead Books\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Riverhead Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Mar 2007)","offer_id":45660100296901,"sku":"9781594482427","price":22.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9781594482427.jpg?v=1768918294","url":"https:\/\/www.inveni.store\/products\/in-persuasion-nation","provider":"Inveni","version":"1.0","type":"link"}