10.22.2017

just finished

I'm glad I listened to this. It's a fascinating blending of 166 narrators. It's a blending of historical fact with a truly mind-bending fictional style. Because I listened to it, I don't know what it looks like on the page, I'll have to get my hands on a copy to see what it looks like.

From the publisher:
The captivating first novel by the best-selling, National Book Award nominee George Saunders, about Abraham Lincoln and the death of his eleven year old son, Willie, at the dawn of the Civil War

On February 22, 1862, two days after his death, Willie Lincoln was laid to rest in a marble crypt in a Georgetown cemetery. That very night, shattered by grief, Abraham Lincoln arrives at the cemetery under cover of darkness and visits the crypt, alone, to spend time with his son’s body.

Set over the course of that one night and populated by ghosts of the recently passed and the long dead, Lincoln in the Bardo is a thrilling exploration of death, grief, the powers of good and evil, a novel - in its form and voice - completely unlike anything you have read before. It is also, in the end, an exploration of the deeper meaning and possibilities of life, written as only George Saunders can: with humor, pathos, and grace.


1 comment:

Paula said...

Sounds like a worthwhile one!