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Lincoln in the Bardo : a novel / George Saunders.
Record details
- ISBN: 0812995341
- ISBN: 9780812995343
- ISBN: 9780812995343
- ISBN: 0812995341
- ISBN: 9780553397574
- ISBN: 0553397575
- ISBN: 081299535X
- ISBN: 9780812995350
- Physical Description: 343 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Random House, [2017]
Content descriptions
| Summary, etc.: | "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. Lincoln in the Bardo is an astonishing feat of imagination and a bold step forward from one of the most important and influential writers of his generation. Formally daring, generous in spirit, deeply concerned with matters of the heart, it is a testament to fiction's ability to speak honestly and powerfully to the things that really matter to us. Saunders has invented a thrilling new form that deploys a kaleidoscopic, theatrical panorama of voices to ask a timeless, profound question: How do we live and love when we know that everything we love must end?" -- Publisher's description |
| Awards Note: | 2017 Man Booker Prize winner. |
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| Subject: | Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 > Fiction. Presidents > United States > Fiction. Grief > Fiction. Grief > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Biographical fiction. Historical fiction. Biographical fiction. Historical fiction. Paranormal fiction. |
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- 57 of 60 copies available at Bibliomation.
- 1 of 1 copy available at Rockville Public Library. (Show preferred library)
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- 0 current holds with 60 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rockville Public Library | F SAU (Text) | 34035138891532 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Ansonia Public Library | FIC SAUNDERS, GEORGE (Text) | 34045126329957 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Babcock Library - Ashford | F Sau (Text) | 33110140761394 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Beacon Falls Public Library | FIC SAU (Text) | 33120000380540 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Beardsley & Memorial Library - Winsted | FIC SAUNDER (Text) | 33750000067712 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Beekley Community Library - New Hartford | F SAUNDERS G (Text) | 32544072444523 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Bentley Memorial Library - Bolton | FIC Sau (Text) | 33160137403260 | Adult Fiction | Checked out | 05/08/2024 |
| Bethel Public Library | F SAUNDERS (Text) | 34030137414469 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Booth & Dimock Library - Coventry | AF SAU (Text) | 33260000247685 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Burnham Library - Bridgewater | FIC SAUNDERS (Text) | 36937002145465 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
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