| Description |
6 audio discs (7 hr., 30 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Playing Time |
073000 |
| Description |
spoken word spw rdacontent |
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audio s rdamedia |
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audio disc sd rdacarrier |
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digital optical rda |
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audio file CD audio rda |
| Note |
Unabridged. |
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Title from container. |
| Performer |
Read by Nick Offerman, David Sedaris and George Saunders, with a full cast that includes Carrie Brownstein, Don Cheadle, Kat Dennings, Lena Dunham, Bill Hader, Miranda July, Mary Karr, Keegan-Michael Key, Julianne Moore, Megan Mullally, Mike O'Brien, Susan Sarandon, Ben Stiller, Jeffrey Tambor, Jeff Tweedy, Bradley Whitford, Patrick Wilson, and Rainn Wilson. |
| System Details |
Compact discs. |
| Summary |
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. Newspapers report that a grief-stricken Lincoln returned to the crypt several times alone to hold his boy's body. 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. |
| Subject |
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Fiction.
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Presidents -- United States -- Fiction.
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Grief -- Fiction.
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Spirits -- Fiction.
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Intermediate state -- Fiction.
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Purgatory -- Fiction.
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Audiobooks.
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| Added Author |
Offerman, Nick, 1970- narrator.
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Sedaris, David, narrator.
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Brownstein, Carrie, 1974- narrator.
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Cheadle, Don.
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Dennings, Kat, 1986- narrator.
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Dunham, Lena, 1986- narrator.
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Hader, Bill, 1978- narrator.
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July, Miranda, 1974- narrator.
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Key, Keegan-Michael, 1971- narrator.
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Moore, Julianne.
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Mullally, Megan, narrator.
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O'Brien, Mike, 1976- narrator.
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Sarandon, Susan, 1946- narrator.
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Stiller, Ben, 1965- narrator.
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Tambor, Jeffrey, 1944- narrator.
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Tweedy, Jeff, 1967- narrator.
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Whitford, Bradley, narrator.
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Wilson, Patrick, 1973- narrator.
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Wilson, Rainn, 1966- narrator.
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| ISBN |
0553397575 (Random House Audio) |
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9780553397574 (Random House Audio) |
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0553397591 (Books on Tape) |
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9780553397598 (Books on Tape) |
| Standard No. |
9780553397574 |
| Music No. |
PRHA 4588 Random House Audio/Books on Tape |
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