![]() He was the sort of child people imagine their children will be, before they have children. In “Tad Lincoln’s Father,” by Julia Taft Bayne. Willie Lincoln was the most lovable boy I ever knew, bright, sensible, sweet-tempered and gentle-mannered. Take the building blocks of description that create the portrait of Willie Lincoln, for instance: They set the scene and tone of the epoch, building narrative but also questioning narrative. The ‘samples’ are extracts from varied historical books and other sources, judiciously juxtaposed. ![]() This, above the poignant story, is what makes the novel truly remarkable. Before picking it up, I’d assumed that the novel’s force stemmed from its subject matter: Abraham Lincoln! The heart-rendering death of his beloved son! What curious pleasure, then, to discover that the novel’s constructed of fragments-George Saunders defines them as ‘a series of monologues’ and ‘samples’ in an interview with Granta Magazine. Lincoln in the Bardo is delightfully weird. Lincoln in the Bardo b y George Saunders - Alexandra d’Abbadie ![]() The wildness logo, a stylised W that looks like two upside-down mountain peaks. ![]()
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