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020 _a9781408897256
041 _aENGLISH
082 _aO-,3N58,L
_bQ7;1
100 _aGEORGE SAUNDERS
_eAU
245 _aLINCOLN IN THE BARDO
250 _a1
260 _aNEW YORK
_bBLOOMSBURY
_c2017
300 _a341
500 _aWINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017
520 _a On February 22, 1862, two days after his death, Willie Lincoln was laid to rest in a marble crypt in a Georgetown cemetery. That very night, shattered by grief, Abraham Lincoln arrives at the cemetery under cover of darkness and visits the crypt, alone, to spend time with his son's body. Willie finds himself in a strange purgatory-- the bardo-- where ghosts commisserate, quarrel, and enact bizarre acts of penance ... and where a struggle erupts over his soul
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