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- Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders | Waterstones
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Published: 08/02/2018
Winner of the 2017 Man Booker Prize. Set at the dawn of the American Civil War, Saunders' masterpiece is at once a moving tale of grief and a meditation on a country in flux and at war with itself. Shortlisted for the Golden Man Booker 2018
Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2017
Shortlisted for the Waterstones Book of the Year 2017
At the dawn of the Civil War Abraham Lincoln nurses a very private grief. President Lincoln's beloved eleven-year-old son lies gravely ill. In a matter of days, Willie dies and is laid to rest in a Georgetown cemetery. Newspapers report that a grief-stricken Lincoln returns to the crypt several times alone to hold his boy's body. From this seed of historical truth, George Saunders spins an unforgettable story of familial love and loss that breaks free of realism, entering a thrilling, supernatural domain: electric, hilarious and terrifying. Willie Lincoln finds himself trapped in a transitional realm - called, in Tibetan tradition, the bardo - and as ghosts mingle, squabble, gripe and commiserate, and stony tendrils creep towards the boy, a monumental struggle erupts over young Willie's soul.
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- Sunday Times
'A luminous feat of generosity and humanism... Such is Saunders's magnificent portraiture that readers will recognize in this wretchedness and bravery aspects of their own characters as well. ' - Colson Whitehead, New York Times
'The most strange and brilliant book you'll read this year... Riotously imagined... So intimate and human, so profound, that it seems like an act of grace. ' - Financial Times
'Dazzling and disorientating... As you turn the pages of this remarkable novel it starts to feel uncannily like a hinge in American history. ' - The Times
'A breathtakingly agile narrative... A brilliant, exhausting, emotionally involving attempt to get up again, to fight for empathy, kindness and self-sacrifice, and to resist. ' - Alex Clark, Observer
'A surreal metaphysical drama about grief and freedom... A father-son narrative that is both hilarious and haunting. ' - Johanna Thomas-Corr, Evening Standard
'Saunders's extraordinary verbal energy is harnessed, for the most part, in the service of capturing the pathos of everyday life...
Offerman's wife, Megan Mullally, asked if she could play half of a foulmouthed, low-class ghost couple, and Bill Hader signed on as her partner. Offerman and Mullally helped Saunders wrangle other celebrities, including Julianne Moore, Lena Dunham, Jeffrey Tambor, Carrie Brownstein, Don Cheadle, Rainn Wilson, and Susan Sarandon. Still, many of the 166 narrators — most of them nonactors — had never set foot in a recording studio, including Saunders' parents, wife, daughters, and high school buddies, as well as staff from his publisher and literary agency. All in all, the project took four months and 17 different studios, from L. A. to Minnesota, with Gildea Skyping into sessions she couldn't attend. The finished audiobook's tapestry of voices perfectly mirrors the novel. Saunders is thrilled, and not just because his vocal cords got a break. "It was the ultimate fanboy experience to have all these people you've admired for years agree to read your words, " he says. "My whole career is over now.
I've peaked! " Below, listen to an exclusive clip from Chapter 27, featuring — in order of appearance — Nick Offerman as Hans Vollman, Julianne Moore as Jane Ellis, Susan Sarandon as Mrs. Abigail Blass, George Saunders as The Reverend Everly Thomas, and David Sedaris as Roger Bevins III. A version of this story originally appears in the Feb. 17, 2017 issue of Entertainment Weekly. Pick it up on newsstands Friday or subscribe online.
- Economist
'Best known for his critically acclaimed short stories, this is Saunders' first full-length novel, told with tenderness, imagination and wit. ' - Zoe Apostolides, Daily Telegraph, Summer Reading
'It's like a gothic, American Under Milk Wood. ' - The Times, Summer Reading
'Filled with wit and sadness... It is an immensely powerful work. In the hands of the right imagination, the horror of individual loss can become an extraordinarily humane exploration of the beauty and the value of life, however painful. ' - Guardian
'George Saunders's Lincoln in the Bardo is an extraordinary act of poignant literary virtuosity about love, death, ghosts and history, starring the grieving president. ' - Simon Sebag Montefiore, Evening Standard, Summer Reading
'I was won over by the sheer brio, writerly flourish and humanity of Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders, which imagines a disputatious convocation of the dead observing the US president as he mourns his son. ' - Nick Curtis, Evening Standard, Summer Reading
'From his short stories, we might have expected Saunders's long-awaited first novel to be some sprawling vision of a future America.
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Unfolding over a single night, Lincoln in the Bardo is written with George Saunders' inimitable humour, pathos and grace. Inventing an exhilarating new form, Saunders confirms his status as one of the most important and influential writers of his generation. Deploying a theatrical, kaleidoscopic panoply of voices - living and dead, historical and fictional - Lincoln in the Bardo poses a timeless question: how do we live and love when we know that everything we hold dear must end? Read a Waterstones exclusive article on the historical context to Lincoln in the Bardo, with recommended further reading about the American Civil War
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN: 9781408871775
Number of pages: 368
Weight: 298 g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 mm
MEDIA REVIEWS
'George Saunders's brilliant debut novel about a grieving Lincoln confirms him as a literary star... To read Saunders's fiction is to be dazzled by ingenuity, imagination and searing comic verve... A tender but trenchant reminder that America is and always has been many-voiced: not one story, but millions. '
After George Saunders finished writing his first novel Lincoln in the Bardo —a story that unfolds through the commentary of dozens of ghosts in a graveyard—he encountered an unforeseen problem: the audiobook. Saunders, whose short stories have made him something of a literary cult hero, usually narrates his own work, but Lincoln in the Bardo 's dizzying cast of 166 characters was daunting. And Saunders' acting chops, he admits, are limited. "I can only do a working-class guy, kind of a woman, and a British guy, " he says. So he approached producer Kelly Gildea with an idea. "I said, 'Can we just get a different actor for each voice? '" Gildea agreed, even though at the time she didn't know exactly how many parts were involved. "But I had the same thought as he did, " she says. "There's no way in hell you could do this by yourself. " Early on, Saunders' pal Nick Offerman agreed to play one of the main supernatural characters; soon after that, writer David Sedaris snapped up one of the other big parts.
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It is Saunders's beautifully realized portrait of Lincoln - caught at this hinge moment in time, in his own personal bardo, as it were - that powers this book. ' - Michiko Kakutanii, New York Times
'A strange and haunting novel - his highly anticipated first, after decades of short-story wizardry - about the effect the dead have on the living, and the living on the dead. ' - Economist
'The story canters along... The writing constantly surprises. ' - Mail on Sunday
'Lincoln in the Bardo has great matters on its mind: freedom and slavery, the spirit and the body. But it is, finally, "about" Abraham Lincoln, that great spectral presence in a whole subgenre of American fiction. ' - New Yorker
'This is a book that confounds our expectations of what a novel should look and sound like. ' - Washington Post
'The much anticipated long-form debut from the US short-story maestro does not dissapoint. ' - Guardian
'A historical novel like no other - a supernatural ensemble extravaganza of awesome intricacy and somewhat perplexing purpose... A feat of style... A polyphonic spree that spins the head. '
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