• In Vigil, a dying oil magnate is visited by ghostsliebre/Getty Images In Vigil, a dying oil magnate is visited by ghosts liebre/Getty Images VigilGeorge Saunders, Bloomsbury In general, I am not a fan of novellas (or short novels). • Just as I am sinking into them, they finish. • However, while interesting people keep writing interesting-sounding works like these, I feel obliged to keep reading them, and this week I will be featuring not one, but two of these relatively slender tomes. • First, there isVigilby Booker prize-winning author George Saunders, whose novelLincoln in the Bardowas a global hit. • InVigil, the ghost of a woman called Jill “Doll” Blaine comes plummeting down to Earth to oversee the final hours of an oil tycoon named K.J. • Jill’s job, as she sees it, is to comfort.

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  • Vigil George Saunders, Bloomsbury In general, I am not a fan of novellas (or short novels). Just as I am sinking into them, they finish. However, while interesting people keep writing interesting-sounding works like these, I feel obliged to keep reading them, and this week I will be featuring not one, but two of these relatively slender tomes. First, there is Vigil by Booker prize-winning author George Saunders, whose novel Lincoln in the Bardo was a global hit. In Vigil, the ghost of a woman called Jill “Doll” Blaine comes plummeting down to Earth to oversee the final hours of an oil tycoon n

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