Conversation on the Man Booker winner

Posted on 7 November 2017

Adam Kelly, Lecturer in American Literature, has written about George Saunders' Booker Prize-winning novel, 'Lincoln in the Bardo', for 'The Conversation'.

Kelly, who teaches, researches and writes about American fiction, argues that Saunders' novel does something genuinely startling, disrupting what we have come to expect from a historical novel, and placing the work of scholars and researchers centre stage.

Though Saunders could not have known just how relevant his novel was going to be, Kelly makes the case that this is very much a book for our times. Read Kelly's essay on Lincoln in the Bardo at The Conversation.