CD Audiobook
Lincoln in the bardo : a novel / George Saunders.
Record details
- ISBN: 0553397575 (Random House Audio)
- ISBN: 9780553397574 (Random House Audio)
- ISBN: 0553397591 (Books on Tape)
- ISBN: 9780553397598 (Books on Tape)
- Physical Description: 6 audio discs (7 1/2 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
- Edition: Unabridged
- Publisher: [New York] : Penguin Random House Audio, [2017]
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Title from container. Compact discs. |
| Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Nick Offerman, David Sedaris, George Saunders, and a full cast. |
| Summary, etc.: | 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 returned to the crypt several times alone 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 realistic, historical framework into the supernatural realm. 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. |
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| Subject: | Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 > Fiction. Presidents > United States > Fiction. Grief > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Biographical fiction. Historical fiction. Audiobooks. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Easton Public Library | ACD SAUNDERS GEORGE (Text) | 37777122399801 | Adult Fiction CD | Available | - |
| Beekley Community Library - New Hartford | CDBOOK F SAUNDERS, G. (Text) | 32544072451221 | Adult Fiction CD | Available | - |
| Bentley Memorial Library - Bolton | BCD FIC Sau (Text) | 33160132863484 | Adult Book on CD | Available | - |
| Booth & Dimock Library - Coventry | ACD SAU (Text) | 33260000365651 | Adult Book on CD | Available | - |
| Brookfield Library | CD F/SAUNDERS (Text) | 34029141695303 | Adult Book on CD | Available | - |
| C.H. Booth Library - Newtown | CD BK SAUNDERS (Text) | 34014139746359 | Adult Book on CD | Available | - |
| David M. Hunt Library - Falls Village | AUD S (Text) | 33180148091755 | Adult Book on CD | Available | - |
| Deep River Public Library | BCD F Saun (Text) | 36039142261631 | Adult Fiction CD | Available | - |
| Edith Wheeler Memorial Library - Monroe | AB FIC SAUNDERS (Text) | 34026139769264 | Adult Fiction Audio Book | Available | - |
| Guilford Smith Library - South Windham | BCD SAU (Text) | 34059145652315 | Adult Book on CD | Available | - |
