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003			OSt
005			20250731114537.0
008			180817s2017 nyu 000 1 eng c
020			_a9781408871751 [paperback]
040			_aUniversity of Cebu-Banilad _beng _cUniversity of Cebu-Banilad _erda
100	1		_aSaunders, George, _d1958- _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aLincoln in the Bardo : _ba novel / _cGeorge Saunders.
250			_aTrade paperback edition.
260			_aLondon : _bBloomsbury Publishing, _cc2017.
300			_a350 pages ; _c21 cm
336			_atext _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier
520			_a"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. Lincoln in the Bardo is an astonishing feat of imagination and a bold step forward from one of the most important and influential writers of his generation. Formally daring, generous in spirit, deeply concerned with matters of the heart, it is a testament to fiction's ability to speak honestly and powerfully to the things that really matter to us. Saunders has invented a thrilling new form that deploys a kaleidoscopic, theatrical panorama of voices to ask a timeless, profound question: How do we live and love when we know that everything we love must end?" -- Publisher's description.
521			_aAdult
541			_xLauron, Rodello _yGeneral Education _zFiction
546			_aEnglish
600	1	0	_aLincoln, Abraham, _d1809-1865 _vFiction.
600	1	4	_aLincoln, Abraham _d1809-1865 _vFiction.
600	1	7	_aLincoln, Abraham, _d1809-1865.
650		0	_aPresidents _zUnited States _vFiction.
650		0	_aGrief _vFiction.
650		4	_aPresidents _zUnited States _vFiction.
650		4	_aGrief _vFiction.
650		7	_aGrief.
650		7	_aPresidents.
651		7	_aUnited States.
655		4	_aHistorical fiction.
655		7	_aBiographical fiction.
655		7	_aFiction.
655		7	_aHistorical fiction.
655		7	_aBiographical fiction. _2gsafd
655		7	_aBiographical fiction.
655		7	_aHistorical fiction.
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998			_cadryann[new] _d07/15/2025
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