The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil
 

The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil

by George Saunders

In The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil, George Saunders offers his most boldly imaginative fiction yet.

In a profoundly strange country called Inner Horner, large enough for only one resident at a time, citizens waiting to enter the country fall under the rule of the power-hungry and tyrannical Phil, setting off a chain of injustice and mass hysteria.

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mundivagant
  • Rated 5 stars

swashbuckling tuna fish cans, shifty
brain buckets, and all sorts of outer
hornerian satirical crimes of unspeakable,
totalitarian depravity...fantastic!

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Fiorentina97
  • Rated 2 stars

George George George! What happened to your usually witty and biting observations of human nature? How could you have written such a tiny, yet ponderous book? Oof!

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