"Lincoln in the Bardo" By George Saunders. Random House, 2017. 368 pages. $28.George Saunders is not the first to channel Abraham Lincoln during Lincoln's torturous term as Civil War president, but he is a courageous and ambitious writer all the same. In his new, bestselling debut novel, "Lincoln in the Bardo," short story writer Saunders has come up with a bold literary form with which to tell stories and explore themes starting with the most basic and compelling — doing what is right. [...]
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