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First edition. |
| Description |
343 pages ; 24 cm |
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| Awards |
Lariat Reading List 2018 |
| 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. "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 |
2017 Man Booker Prize winner. |
| Subject |
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Fiction.
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Presidents -- United States -- Fiction.
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Grief -- Fiction.
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Grief -- Fiction
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Grief. (DNLM)D006117 |
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Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865. (OCoLC)fst00030184
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Presidents. (OCoLC)fst01075723
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Grief. (OCoLC)fst00947883
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Fiction.
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Presidents -- United States -- Fiction.
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Bereavement -- Fiction.
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Biographical fiction.
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Historical fiction.
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Fiction |
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Historical fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726640
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Ghost stories. (OCoLC)fst01726625
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Biographical fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726537
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Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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Biographical fiction.
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Historical fiction.
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Biographical fiction.
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Historical fiction.
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Ghost stories.
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Biographical fiction.
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Historical fiction.
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| ISBN |
9780812995343 |
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0812995341 |
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9780812995350 (ebook) |
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9780553397574 |
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0553397575 |
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081299535X |
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9780812995350 |
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9780812985405 |
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0812985400 |
| Standard No. |
40026860053 |
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9780812995343 52800 |
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