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Lincoln in the bardo : a novel / George Saunders.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Fiction CDs Saunder Lincoln
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- Format:
- Sound recording
- Author/Creator:
- Saunders, George, 1958- author, narrator.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Fiction.
- Lincoln, Abraham.
- Presidents--United States--Fiction.
- Presidents.
- Grief--Fiction.
- Grief.
- Spirits--Fiction.
- Spirits.
- Intermediate state--Fiction.
- Intermediate state.
- Purgatory--Fiction.
- Purgatory.
- Genre:
- Biographical fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- Paranormal fiction.
- Audiobooks
- Physical Description:
- 6 audio discs (7 hr., 30 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
- 4 3/4 in.
- Edition:
- Unabridged.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Random House Audio ; [Westminster, Maryland] : Books on Tape, [2017]
- System Details:
- digital optical
- audio file CD audio
- 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.
- Participant:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Title from container.
- Compact disc.
- Audie Award, 2018.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Miller Fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 0553397575
- 9780553397574
- 0553397591
- 9780553397598
- OCLC:
- 965917428
- Publisher Number:
- 9780553397574 53500
- PRHA 4588 Random House Audio/Books on Tape
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