The Resource Lincoln in the bardo, George Saunders
Lincoln in the bardo, George Saunders
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The item Lincoln in the bardo, George Saunders represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library.
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- 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. "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
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- Large print edition.
- Extent
- 475 pages (large print)
- Note
- Thorndike Press large print basic
- Isbn
- 9781410497475
- Label
- Lincoln in the bardo
- Title
- Lincoln in the bardo
- Statement of responsibility
- George Saunders
- Subject
-
- trueLiterary fiction
- Historical fiction
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Fiction
- truePresidents -- United States
- true1860s -- 1860 -- 1869
- Paranormal fiction
- trueHistorical fiction
- trueBiographical fiction
- trueSpiritual journeys
- trueFamily relationships
- Presidents -- United States -- Fiction
- Presidents
- Grief
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
- truePurgatory
- Historical fiction
- Biographical fiction
- trueUnited States Civil War, 1861-1865
- Paranormal fiction
- trueLoss (Psychology)
- trueCemeteries
- Large type books
- Large type books
- trueSpirits
- United States
- Fiction
- Biographical fiction
- trueMultiple perspectives
- Grief -- Fiction
- trueGrief
- trueLincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
- Language
- eng
- 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. "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
- Summary
- Traces a night of solitary mourning and reflection as experienced by the sixteenth president after the death of his eleven-year-old son at the dawn of the Civil War
- Award
-
- ALA Notable Book, 2018.
- Booklist Editors' Choice, 2017.
- Man Booker Prize, 2017.
- Library Journal Best Books, 2017.
- New York Times Notable Book, 2017.
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10545974
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1958-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Saunders, George
- Dewey number
- 813/.54
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Lincoln, Abraham
- Lincoln, Abraham
- Presidents
- Grief
- Large type books
- Grief
- Large type books
- Presidents
- United States
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Lincoln in the bardo, George Saunders
- Note
- Thorndike Press large print basic
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn962853033
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Edition
- Large print edition.
- Extent
- 475 pages (large print)
- Form of item
- large print
- Isbn
- 9781410497475
- Lccn
- 2016052463
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)962853033
- Label
- Lincoln in the bardo, George Saunders
- Note
- Thorndike Press large print basic
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn962853033
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Edition
- Large print edition.
- Extent
- 475 pages (large print)
- Form of item
- large print
- Isbn
- 9781410497475
- Lccn
- 2016052463
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)962853033
Subject
- true1860s -- 1860 -- 1869
- trueBiographical fiction
- Biographical fiction
- Biographical fiction
- trueCemeteries
- trueFamily relationships
- Fiction
- Grief
- trueGrief
- Grief -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- trueHistorical fiction
- Historical fiction
- Large type books
- Large type books
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
- trueLincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Fiction
- trueLiterary fiction
- trueLoss (Psychology)
- trueMultiple perspectives
- Paranormal fiction
- Paranormal fiction
- Presidents
- truePresidents -- United States
- Presidents -- United States -- Fiction
- truePurgatory
- trueSpirits
- trueSpiritual journeys
- United States
- trueUnited States Civil War, 1861-1865
Genre
- trueBiographical fiction
- Fiction
- trueHistorical fiction
- Large type books
- trueLiterary fiction
- trueMultiple perspectives
- trueParanormal fiction
Included in
- trueALA Notable Books - Fiction: 2018
- trueBiographical Fiction
- trueBooklist Editors' Choice - Best Fiction Books: 2017
- trueEyewitness to History
- trueLibrary Journal Top Ten
- trueMan Booker Prize
- trueNew York Times Notable Books - Fiction and Poetry: 2017
- truePresidential Portraits
- trueThe Blue and the Gray
- trueTroubled Times
Tone Tone is the feeling that a book evokes in the reader. In many cases, this category best answers the question, "What are you in the mood for?"
Writing style Writing style terms tell us how a book is written, from the complexity of the language to the level of the detail in the background.
Character Only applied to fiction books, character appeal is especially for those readers who love books *because* of the characters.
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