"Now at almost 80 years of age, he has produced a novel remarkable for its integrity, for its readiness to embrace difficult truths and for its complex way of paying homage to the passing of time." (LB)Īn avid Europhile and chronicler of modern Britain, Jonathan Coe's latest spans 75 years of British history through the lives of one family living on the outskirts of Birmingham near a famous chocolate factory. The Guardian said: "Holleran renders an elegiac and very funny contemplation of not just ageing but an age. A wistful, witty meditation on a gay man's twilight years and the twilight of America." The novel is "all the more affecting and engaging", Colm Toíbín writes in the New York Times, because, in 1978, Holleran wrote the "quintessential novel of gay abandon", Dancer from the Dance. Set in a drought-hit backwater of rural Florida, The Kingdom of Sand tells the story of a nameless narrator's existence of semi-solitude, as the memories of his other, previous life come and go. "These stories are not only perfectly pitched they come with enough comedy to have you grinning and enough empathy to suddenly stop you in your tracks," writes The Guardian, while according to the Sydney Morning Herald, "Saunders is masterful, he illuminates with a fierce flame".
Liberation Day's nine stories consider human connection, power, enslavement and oppression with Saunders' trademark deadpan humour and compassion.
Known as a modern master of the form, this is George Saunders' first short story collection since 2013's Tenth of December, which was a National Book Award finalist.
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