- Editorial:
- BLOOMSBURY U.K
- Materia
- General fiction
- ISBN:
- 978-1-4088-7177-5
LINCOLN IN THE BARDO
SAUNDERS, GEORGE
February 1862. The Civil War rages while President Lincoln's beloved eleven-year-old son is 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 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 thrilling, supernatural realm both hilarious and terrifying.