A review by ipb1
Civilwarland in Bad Decline: Stories and a Novella by George Saunders

4.0

I seem inadvertently to have read Saunders in reverse, and maybe that is why I enjoyed this slightly less than the later works (his subsequent stories, and Lincoln in the Bardo). You can see all of the preoccupations and themes of the later work, but somehow this is a more uniform collection than the more startling variation of more recent books. You could almost go so far as to say this is one joke in multiple forms, although to be fair it is a very good joke and largely stands up to the repetition.