LIBERATION DAY: WITH 1995 STORY MAGAZINE OF "STICKS" BY GEORGE SAUNDERS

New York City, NY: Random House, 2022. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. As New/As New Dust Jacket.. New York City, NY: Random House, 2022. Hardcover. As New/As New. First Edition/First Printing. 235 pages. The author's fifth collection of short stories. One of George Saunders' finest achievements. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. "Signed Copy" round gold sticker pasted in front. Presents George Saunders' "Liberation Day". Going from strength to strength as one of our most brilliant writers: Another masterly collection, written in the simultaneously hilarious yet dead-serious vein that is now identified with the author. His is "an astoundingly tuned voice, graceful, dark, authentic, and funny, telling just the kinds of stories we need to get us through these times" (Thomas Pynchon). "Not since Twain has America produced a satirist this funny" (Zadie Smith). A satirist who makes us laugh is not just a satirist (or humorist), but an ironist, the much greater thing. Which Saunders is. Comes with a fine copy of the Story Magazine Winter 1995 Issue, which features, along with other luminary-writers' contributions, one of George Saunders' earliest short stories, "Sticks". An absolute "must-have" title for George Saunders collectors. This Autographed Copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the publisher's tipped-in page by George Saunders. It comes with a rare copy of the Story Magazine Winter 1995 Issue, which features one of the author's earliest stories, "Sticks". This title is a contemporary classic. As far as we know, this is the only such pre-signed copy (with copy of Story Magazine) of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. A scarce set thus. Selected by The New Yorker Magazine as one of "Twenty Writers for the 21st Century". Winner of the Booker Prize in 2017 for "Lincoln In The Bardo". One of the most brilliant writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER GEORGE SAUNDERS TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0525509593.