![]() ![]() Not a bad outcome from reading a short story. ![]() In any case, it was different and reading it after reading Lincoln in the Bardo made me want to read a Lincoln biography. I couldn't decide if I liked it, if it worked, if it was immature playwriting by a writer enamored with Lincoln or something more profound. Then came the sixth story, "Lincoln Arisen," which reads like a one-act surreal play (think Pinter or Beckett) with narrative cum stage directions describing action through a series of stream-of-conscious dreamlike scenes mostly between Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. There are boyfriend/girlfriend, college teachers/students, kids at a baseball game scenarios. ![]() The first five stories in this 2005 collection are vignettes, romantic sketches, and domestic slices of life-not as exciting, inventive, or daring as the full-bodied stories in God Bless America (2011), which was my second taste of Steve Almond’s work after discovering a story of his in Tin House. ![]()
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