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Lincoln in the Bardo : A Novel by George Saunders, Javier Calvo Perales, Yannick Garcia Porres is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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**The long-awaited first novel from the author of __Tenth of December__: 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**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 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 enac

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Author
George Saunders, Javier Calvo Perales, Yannick Garcia Porres
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Published
2017
Language
EN
ISBN
9780812995343
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Fiction, Literary Fiction, History
Rating
3.9 / 5 (27,590 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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