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Since his first book, “CivilWarland in Bad Decline,” published in 1996, Saunders has made a name for himself and attracted a devoted fan-base by creating what reviewers love to hail as “dystopian fantasies...
...CivilWarland,” employees are subjected to horrific violence when some of the real dead simulated in their Civil War recreations come back to haunt them. In the eponymous theme-park of his second collection, “Pastoralia,” impatient visitors and their bratty children pay to observe individuals dressed up as Cro-Magnons, who are allowed to speak only in grunts in the ersatz cave that is their workplace. (They can curse at their own misbehaving offspring, fax evaluations of each other’s daily performance, chainsmoke, bicker, flirt, and so on, only after...
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