NP: Saunders//Lincoln

[Becky Lindroos]

It’s now on my wish list -  

Becky 

> On Feb 21, 2017, at 7:59 AM, Smoke Teff <smoketeff at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Friends, I write to recommend GS's new (first pub'd) novel, Lincoln in the Bardo. I had the privilege of learning from him and getting to know him while he was working on this, so it's been on my horizon for a while, and it was as impactful a read as I expected it to be. I believe it is great. Might not jive with all tastes, or maybe it will. I read it in one sitting and cried a great deal. I don't know how much of the American reading public has or even how many of you have much of a taste for the kind of mysticism or even religious thinking inside Contemporary Literary Fiction you might extract from, say, a Pynchon. I think some people who have been paying casual/medium attention to Saunders will be a little surprised to find it here--which makes me wonder how it'll play with his fans. But if you like his short stuff, and if you like Pynchon, I think you'll find plenty of overlap (some obv. stylistic/thematic reasons to think of M&D along the way). 
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> Curious to hear what any of you lot think about it. 

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