Tenth of December presents 10 visions of America mostly
filtered through the eyes of losers with one-syllable names
such as Al and Kyle and Jeff. The stories tend to take place
in self-contained suburban or small-town settings. No one
here is successful or cool. Sometimes they are uncool in a
virtuous way. Sometimes they are uncool and mean. The
narrator of one story (his name is Ted) has the hesitant,
disappointed voice of a typical Saunders protagonist:
"Based
on my experience of life, which I have not exactly hit out of
the park, I tend to agree with that thing about, If it's not
broke, don't fix it."
filtered through the eyes of losers with one-syllable names
such as Al and Kyle and Jeff. The stories tend to take place
in self-contained suburban or small-town settings. No one
here is successful or cool. Sometimes they are uncool in a
virtuous way. Sometimes they are uncool and mean. The
narrator of one story (his name is Ted) has the hesitant,
disappointed voice of a typical Saunders protagonist:
"Based
on my experience of life, which I have not exactly hit out of
the park, I tend to agree with that thing about, If it's not
broke, don't fix it."
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