![]() ![]() It is also stupidly funny and philosophically transcendent. It is a sustained chorus on life, death, and Lincoln father and son. The Lincoln in this bardo, then, is the newly departed Willie-but also Abe, who leaves the White House to visit his son's body during the night. The oral history in this case comprises the voices of over a hundred ghosts living in a liminal sort of purgatory, a pre-Judgment in-between the Buddhist tradition calls the bardo. Here's a shot: Lincoln in the Bardo is a fictitious (mostly) oral history of the night President Lincoln's 11-year-old son, Willie, was interred. ![]() It'll be a fun parlor game to watch critics attempt to outdo themselves describing what this thing is. L incoln in the Bardo is George Saunders's first novel, but Saunders being Saunders, that designation is sort of useless-nothing in this book resembles any novel you've ever read before. ![]()
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