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Lincoln in the bardo a novel

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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,...

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Main Author: Saunders, George, 1958- (Author, Narrator)
Other Authors: Offerman, Nick, 1970- (Narrator), Sedaris, David (Narrator), Brownstein, Carrie, 1974- (Narrator), Cheadle, Don (Narrator), Dennings, Kat, 1986- (Narrator), Dunham, Lena, 1986- (Narrator), Hader, Bill, 1978- (Narrator), July, Miranda, 1974- (Narrator), Key, Keegan-Michael, 1971- (Narrator), Moore, Julianne (Narrator), Mullally, Megan (Narrator), O'Brien, Mike, 1976- (Narrator), Sarandon, Susan, 1946- (Narrator), Stiller, Ben, 1965- (Narrator), Tambor, Jeffrey, 1944- (Narrator), Tweedy, Jeff, 1967- (Narrator), Whitford, Bradley (Narrator), Wilson, Patrick, 1973- (Narrator), Wilson, Rainn, 1966- (Narrator)
Format: Audiobooks Audiobook (CD)
Language:English
Published: [New York] : [Westminster, Maryland] : Random House Audio ; Random House Audio, [2017]
Edition:[Unabridged].
Subjects:
Lincoln, Abraham, > 1809-1865 > Fiction.
Presidents > United States > Fiction.
Grief > Fiction.
Spirits > Fiction.
Intermediate state > Fiction.
Purgatory > Fiction.
Biographical fiction > Washington (D.C.).
Historical fiction > Washington (D.C.).
Paranormal fiction > Washington (D.C.)
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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.
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Physical Description:6 audio discs (7 1/2 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Playing Time:07:30:00
ISBN:0553397575
9780553397574
0553397591
9780553397598
Author Notes:George Saunders is the author of CivilWarLand in Bad Decline and Pastoralia.

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