Pastoralia

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Pastoralia

US release cover
Author	George Saunders
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.