Lincoln in the Bardo - Signed / Dated

George Saunders

ISBN 10: 1408896281 / ISBN 13: 9781408896280

Published by Bloomsbury, 2017

About this Item

As new.Fine copy, no dust-jacket as issued.Inscribed ,signed and dated by the author to the title page.Winner of the 2017 Booker Prize.Not the true first impression of this title.This is a later Special edition published by Bloomsbury for Waterstones.Contains additional material.A first impression in this format.Signed and dated 16 Oct 2017, the day before the prize winner was announced. Bookseller Inventory # 000961

Bibliographic Details

Title: Lincoln in the Bardo - Signed / Dated

Publisher: Bloomsbury

Publication Date: 2017

Binding: Hardcover

Book Condition: Fine

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis:

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 and 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 returns alone to the crypt several times to hold his boy's body. From that seed of historical truth, George Saunders spins an unforgettable story of familial love and loss that breaks free of its realistic, historical framework into a thrilling, 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.