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 US release cover | |
| Author | George Saunders |
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| Cover artist | Rodrigo Corral |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Riverhead Books |
Publication date | June 2000 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardcover) |
| Pages | 208 p. |
| ISBN | 1-57322-872-9 |
Pastoralia is short story writer George Saunders’s second full-length short story collection, published in 2000. The collection received highly positive reviews from book critics and was ranked the fifth-greatest book of the 2000s by literary magazine The Millions.[1] The book consists of stories that appeared (sometimes in different forms) in The New Yorker; most of the stories were O. Henry Prize Stories. The collection was a New York Times Notable Book for 2001.