Lincoln in the Bardo

Name: Lincoln in the Bardo
Author: George Saunders

by George Saunders

Lincoln's dead son appears in purgatory during Civil War as meditations on grief unfold

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George Saunders

American short-story writer and novelist whose satirical fiction skewers contemporary American culture with compassion and formal inventiveness. Lincoln in the Bardo won the Man Booker Prize in 2017. He is one of the most admired short-fiction writers of his generation.

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