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First edition |
| Descript |
341 pages ; 25 cm |
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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, 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 |
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Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Fiction
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Lincoln, William Wallace, 1850-1862 -- Fiction
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Purgatory -- Fiction
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Presidents -- United States -- Fiction
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Parental grief -- Fiction
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Biographical fiction.
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Historical fiction.
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Paranormal fiction.
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Fiction.
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Biografiska romaner
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Historiska romaner
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Skönlitteratur
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| Classmark |
813/.54
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| ISBN/ISSN |
9780812995343 (hardcover) |
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0812995341 (hardcover) |
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9780812995350 (ebook) |
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