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George Saunders returns to the bardo in Vigil to confront an oil tycoon — I.guim.co.uk

George Saunders returns to the bardo in Vigil to confront an oil tycoon

George Saunders’s new novel Vigil returns to the indeterminate bardo between life and death, placing a chorus of meddlesome ghosts at the deathbed of oil magnate KJ Boone. It is Saunders’s first novel since 2017’s Booker prize‑winning Lincoln in the Bardo. Boone is presented as a

George Saunders’s Vigil uses ghosts to probe climate denial and mortality — I.guim.co.uk

George Saunders’s Vigil uses ghosts to probe climate denial and mortality

George Saunders’s new novel, Vigil, is a ghost story in which an oil tycoon who spent a lifetime covering up scientific evidence for climate change is visited on his deathbed by a host of spirits. Like his first novel, Lincoln in the Bardo, Vigil forces its central figure to