Lincoln in the Bardo : a novel
Record details
- ISBN: 9780812995350
- ISBN: 081299535X
- ISBN: 0553397575
- ISBN: 9780553397574
- ISBN: 0812995341
- ISBN: 9780812995343
- ISBN: 9780812995343
- ISBN: 0812995341
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Physical Description:
343 pages ; 24 cm
print - 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: | Grief Fiction Grief Fiction Presidents United States Fiction Lincoln, Abraham 1809-1865 Fiction |
Genre: | Paranormal fiction. Historical fiction. Biographical fiction. Historical fiction. Biographical fiction. |
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Rockville Public Library | F SAU (Text) | 34035138891532 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |