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buy now <\/a><\/p>\n $14.64<\/p>\n #1 NEW YORK TIMES<\/i> BESTSELLER \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 The long-awaited first novel from the author of Tenth of December<\/i>: a moving and original father-son story featuring none other than Abraham Lincoln, as well as an unforgettable cast of supporting characters, living and dead, historical and invented<\/b><\/p>\n 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\u00e2\u20ac™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. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153My poor boy, he was too good for this earth,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the president says at the time. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153God has called him home.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Newspapers report that a grief-stricken Lincoln returns, alone, to the crypt several times to hold his boy\u00e2\u20ac™s body.<\/p>\n 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 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\u00e2\u20ac\u201dcalled, in the Tibetan tradition, the bardo\u00e2\u20ac\u201da monumental struggle erupts over young Willie\u00e2\u20ac™s soul. Praise for Lincoln in the Bardo<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u0153A luminous feat of generosity and humanism.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00e2\u20ac\u201dColson Whitehead, The<\/i> New York Times Book Review<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u0153A masterpiece.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00e2\u20ac\u201d<\/i>Zadie Smith<\/b><\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Ingenious . . . Saunders\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwell on his way toward becoming a twenty-first-century Twain\u00e2\u20ac\u201dcrafts an American patchwork of love and loss, giving shape to our foundational sorrows.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00e2\u20ac\u201dVogue<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Saunders is the most humane American writer working today.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00e2\u20ac\u201dHarper\u00e2\u20ac™s Magazine<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The novel beats with a present-day urgency\u00e2\u20ac\u201da nation at war with itself, the unbearable grief of a father who has lost a child, and a howling congregation of ghosts, as divided in death as in life, unwilling to move on.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00e2\u20ac\u201dVanity Fair<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u0153A brilliant, Buddhist reimagining of an American story of great loss and great love.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00e2\u20ac\u201dElle<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Wildly imaginative\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00e2\u20ac\u201dMarie Claire<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Mesmerizing . . . Dantesque . . . A haunting American ballad.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00e2\u20ac\u201dPublishers Weekly<\/i> (starred review)<\/b><\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Exhilarating . . . Ruthless and relentless in its evocation not only of Lincoln and his quandary, but also of the tenuous existential state shared by all of us.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u201dKirkus Reviews<\/i> (starred review)<\/b><\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac™s unlike anything you\u00e2\u20ac™ve ever read, except that the grotesque humor, pathos, and, ultimately, human kindness at its core mark it as a work that could come only from Saunders.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00e2\u20ac\u201dThe National<\/i><\/b>Random House<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Originally posted 2017-03-22 23:30:05. Republished by Blog Post Promoter<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n \t\t\t<\/div>\n
Lincoln in the Bardo<\/i> 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\u00e2\u20ac™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?<\/p>\n