Thursday, August 30, 2018
Book Review: Lincoln in the Bardo
| Review | I finished this book yesterday and am still wondering what I think of it. Our book club leader jokingly tried to "sell" it to us by saying, "....there's a lot of white space..." I don't know how anyone could read it as an audio book. First, you have to acknowledge that it represents a great feat of imagination. It took some time to figure out what was going on and there are still points I missed. Why were some of the denizens of the graveyard "staying" on and others were suffering horrors in the pit or on the fence? I see that the author was trying to show that Lincoln's visits to his son and the conceit that the denizens could enter his body and touch his mind were responsible for his great and growing empathy at a serious low point of the Civil War. All the characters were quite representative of their time in history (also their names) and you did get a sense of the era. It also had many bawdy moments. I will continue to think! George Saunders is certainly one of a kind! A virtual reality view of Bardo from the New York Times https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phuCt... interview with Jeffrey Brown https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9MKN... (less) | |
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