Cressida Connolly

Samuel Beckett walks into a nail bar

A review of George Saunders’ award-winning book of short stories Tenth of December. Distinct, troubling, funny: Saunders is a worthy winner of the Folio prize

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  • Tenth of December

    George Saunders

    Bloomsbury, pp. 288

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