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Lincoln in the Bardo : a novel
- Title
- Lincoln in the Bardo : a novel / George Saunders.
- Author
- Saunders, George, 1958-
- Publication
- New York : Random House, [2017]
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 17-5689 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 343 pages; 24 cm.
- 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.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Paranormal fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- Biographical fiction.
- Fiction.
- Awards (note)
- 2017 Man Booker Prize winner.
- Call Number
- JFE 17-5689
- ISBN
- 9780812995343
- 0812995341
- LCCN
- 2016004993
- 40026860053
- 9780812995343
- OCLC
- 942885124
- Author
- Saunders, George, 1958- author.
- Title
- Lincoln in the Bardo : a novel / George Saunders.
- Publisher
- New York : Random House, [2017]
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Awards
- 2017 Man Booker Prize winner.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 400268600539780812995343 52800
- Research Call Number
- JFE 17-5689