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Lincoln in the Bardo : = a novel /

Saunders, George, (1958-)

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Lincoln in the Bardo : = a novel /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Lincoln in the Bardo :/ George Saunders.
Reminder of title:	a novel /
Author:	Saunders, George,
Published:	New York :Random House, : 2017.,
Description:	341 p. :ill ;25 cm.
Subject:	Presidents - Fiction. - United States -
ISBN:	9780812995343

Lincoln in the Bardo : = a novel /
Saunders, George,1958-

Lincoln in the Bardo :a novel /George Saunders. - 1st ed. - New York :Random House,2017. - 341 p. :ill ;25 cm.

February 1862. The Civil War is less than one year old. The fighting has begun in earnest, and the nation has begun to realize it is in for a long, bloody struggle. Meanwhile, President Lincoln's beloved eleven-year-old son, Willie, lies upstairs in the White House, gravely ill. In a matter of days, despite predictions of a recovery, Willie dies and is laid to rest in a Georgetown cemetery. My poor boy, he was too good for this earth, the president says at the time. God has called him home. Newspapers report that a grief-stricken Lincoln returns, alone, to the crypt several times to hold his boy's body. From that seed of historical truth, George Saunders spins a story of familial love and loss that breaks free of its historical framework into a supernatural realm both hilarious and terrifying. Willie Lincoln finds himself in a strange purgatory where ghosts mingle, gripe, commiserate, quarrel, and enact bizarre acts of penance. Within this transitional state -- called, in the Tibetan tradition, the bardo -- a monumental struggle erupts over young Willie's soul.

ISBN: 9780812995343US28.00

Standard No.: 40026860053

LCCN: 2016004993Subjects--Personal Names:

3249970
Lincoln, William Wallace,
1850-1862--Fiction.Subjects--Topical Terms:

765172
Presidents
--United States--Fiction.

LC Class. No.: PS3569.A7897 / .L56 2017

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