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Lincoln in the bardo : a novel / George Saunders.
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.
Record details
- ISBN: 0553397575
- ISBN: 9780553397574
- ISBN: 0553397591
- ISBN: 9780553397598
- Physical Description: 6 audio discs (7 hr., 30 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
- Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: New York : Random House Audio ; [2017]
- Copyright: ℗2017
Content descriptions
General Note: | Title from container. Compact disc. |
Participant or Performer Note: | 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. |
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Subject: | Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 > Fiction. Presidents > United States > Fiction. Grief > Fiction. Spirits > Fiction. Intermediate state > Fiction. Purgatory > Fiction. |
Genre: | Biographical fiction. Historical fiction. Paranormal fiction. Audiobooks. Biographical fiction. Historical fiction. |