Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders

Lincoln in the Bardo by George SaundersIn his long awaited first novel, American master George Saunders delivers his most original, transcendent, and moving work yet. Unfolding in a graveyard over the course of a single night, narrated by a dazzling chorus of voices, Lincoln in the Bardo is a literary experience unlike any otherfor no one but Saunders could conceive it. February 1862. The Civil War is less than one year old. The fighting has begun in earnest, and the nation has begun to

It's the 1960s

cuff-shooting millionaire man about women about town

and written with energy

whose home was raided by the oppressive military regime while he lay on his deathbed

with almost no equations

intimate prose

What if you could wake up tomorrow and any - or EVERY - area of your life was beginning to transform

Intellect is logical

who swears vengeance on the mammoth white whale that has crippled him

But before long their rural idyll is threatened by the discovery of natural gas on the mountain

he was just his inner-self: a luminous being that he could trust indefinitely and love infinitely

Addressed in green ink on yellowish parchment with a purple seal