Thursday, April 16, 2020

Lincoln in the Bardo - George Saunders

Received this book as a Christmas present and found the opening third, snippets of articles and historical written versions of the same event, to be inventive and intriguing. (Although I at first thought they were all true but now wonder if it wasn't just creative writing on George's part.) I especially liked how a lot of the accounts contradicted each other, just as these things tend to do, at least before everything being filmed. The speaking dead in the graveyard was a little odd for me, to be frank, but played out well enough. Overall the mixture of history with fiction, but not quite in an "historical fiction" type way was very unique.

Early 2018
6.5/10

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