"Love Letter"

Title"Love Letter"
Year for Search2020
AuthorsSaunders, George(b. 1958)
Secondary TitleThe New Yorker
Volume / Edition96.7
Pagination54-57
Date PublishedApril 6, 2020
ISBN Number9780525509592
ISSN Number0028792X
KeywordsMale author, US author
Annotation

A letter from a grandfather to his grandson in the near future when a corrupt authoritarian government under the leadership of one man (clearly Donald Trump) who won the presidency three times and then by his son has taken over the U.S. The grandfather reflects on what has grandson should do when a friend has been disappeared.

Additional Publishers

Rpt. without the illus. in his Liberation Day: Stories (New York: Random House, 2022), 95-104.

URL https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/04/06/love-letter-george-saunders
Illustration

Illus. Rodrigo Corral

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Author Note

The author (b. 1958) is a professor in the M.F.A. program at Syracuse University. His Lincoln in the Bardo won the 2017 Booker Prize.

Full Text

2020 Saunders, George (b. 1958) “Love Letter.” Illus. Rodrigo Corral. The New Yorker 96.7 (April 6, 2020): 54-57. Rpt. without the illus. in his Liberation Day: Stories (New York: Random House, 2022), 95-104. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/04/06/love-letter-george-saunders PSt

A letter from a grandfather to his grandson in the near future when a corrupt authoritarian government under the leadership of one man (clearly Donald Trump) who won the presidency three times and then by his son has taken over the U.S. The grandfather reflects on what has grandson should do when a friend has been disappeared. The author is a professor in the M.F.A. program at Syracuse University. His Lincoln in the Bardo won the 2017 Booker Prize.