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Lincoln in the Bardo is a 2017 experimental novel by American writer George Saunders. It is Saunders's first full-length novel and was The New York Times hardcover fiction bestseller for the week of March 5, 2017.
- George Saunders
- 2017
1 de jan. de 2017 · A fictional account of President Lincoln's visit to his son's grave in a cemetery, where he encounters ghosts of the dead. The novel explores themes of love, loss, and the afterlife through a chorus of voices and a unique literary style.
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- Hardcover
A novel by George Saunders that explores the Bardo, a transitional space for souls between life and death. The story follows Willie Lincoln, who dies and stays in the Bardo, and his father Abraham Lincoln, who visits him in the mausoleum.
6 de fev. de 2017 · “Lincoln in the Bardo” takes, as its jumping-off point, the death of Abraham Lincoln’s beloved 11-year-old son, Willie, who succumbed to typhoid fever on Feb. 20, 1862, and the grief ...
- Michiko Kakutani
Lincoln in the Bardo. A Novel. By George Saunders Read by George Saunders, Nick Offerman, David Sedaris, Carrie Brownstein, Don Cheadle, Lena Dunham, Bill Hader, Kirby Heyborne, Keegan-Michael Key, Julianne Moore, Megan Mullally, Susan Sarandon, Ben Stiller and Various. Best Seller.
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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.
9 de mar. de 2017 · George Saunders' novel explores death, grief and life through a chorus of voices in a cemetery. Learn more about the book, the author and the Booker Prize ceremony.
