Shortcuts
Please wait while page loads.
Waverley Library Catalogue . Default .
PageMenu- Main Menu-
Page content

Catalogue Display

Lincoln in the bardo / George Saunders.

Lincoln in the bardo / George Saunders.
Share Link
Item Information
Shelf Location Collection Volume Ref. Branch Status Due Date
F SAUN
 Adult Fiction   Adult Lending . On Loan . 23 Oct 2024
SF SAUN
 Stack Fiction   Adult Stack (Ask Staff) . Available .  
SF SAUN
 Stack Fiction   Adult Stack (Ask Staff) . Available .  
Reserve Title Catalogue Record 718630
. Catalogue Record 718630 ItemInfo Beginning of record . Catalogue Record 718630 ItemInfo Top of page .
Catalogue Information
Field name Details
ISBN 9781408871744
9781408871751 (paperback)
Classification F SAUN
Personal Name Saunders, George, 1958-
Title Lincoln in the bardo / George Saunders.
Production & Copyright Details London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017.
©2017
Physical Description 341 pages ; 24 cm.
Content type text
Summary Note The extraordinary first novel by the bestselling, Folio Prize-winning, National Book Award-shortlisted George Saunders, about Abraham Lincoln and the death of his eleven year old son, Willie, at the dawn of the Civil War The American Civil War rages while President Lincoln's beloved eleven-year-old son lies gravely ill. In a matter of days, Willie dies and is laid to rest in a Georgetown cemetery. Newspapers report that a grief-stricken Lincoln returns to the crypt several times alone to hold his boy's body. From this seed of historical truth, George Saunders spins an unforgettable story of familial love and loss that breaks free of realism, entering a thrilling, supernatural domain both hilarious and terrifying. Willie Lincoln finds himself trapped in a transitional realm - called, in Tibetan tradition, the bardo - and as ghosts mingle, squabble, gripe and commiserate, and stony tendrils creep towards the boy, a monumental struggle erupts over young Willie's soul. Unfolding over a single night, Lincoln in the Bardo is written with George Saunders' inimitable humour, pathos and grace. Here he invents an exhilarating new form, and is confirmed as one of the most important and influential writers of his generation. Deploying a theatrical, kaleidoscopic panoply of voices - living and dead, historical and fictional - Lincoln in the Bardo poses a timeless question: how do we live and love when we know that everything we hold dear must end?
Subject-Personal Name Lincoln, Abraham, -- 1809-1865 -- Fiction
Subject - Topical Term Presidents -- United States -- Fiction
Grief -- Fiction
Subject - Genre Biographical fiction
Historical fiction
.
Catalogue Information 718630 Beginning of record . Catalogue Information 718630 Top of page .