Lincoln in the bardo : a novel / George Saunders.

Saunders, George, 1958- author, narrator.

FIC SAUNDERS G CD BOOK

[Unabridged].

[New York] : Random House Audio ; [Westminster, Maryland] : Random House Audio, [2017]

6 audio discs (7 1/2 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.

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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. Newspapers report that a grief-stricken Lincoln returned to the crypt several times alone to hold his boy's body. 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.

Lincoln, William Wallace, 1850-1862 -- Fiction.

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Fiction.

Presidents -- United States -- Fiction.

Grief -- Fiction.

Spirits -- Fiction.

Intermediate state -- Fiction.

Purgatory -- Fiction.

Unabridged audiobooks.

Spoken compact discs.

Fiction audiobooks.

Biographical fiction.

Historical fiction.

Paranormal fiction.

Audiobooks.

Offerman, Nick, 1970- narrator.

Sedaris, David, narrator.

Brownstein, Carrie, 1974- narrator.

Cheadle, Don, narrator.

Dennings, Kat, 1986- narrator.

Dunham, Lena, 1986- narrator.

Hader, Bill, 1978- narrator.

July, Miranda, 1974- narrator.

Key, Keegan-Michael, 1971- narrator.

Moore, Julianne, narrator.

Mullally, Megan, narrator.

O'Brien, Mike, 1976- narrator.

Sarandon, Susan, 1946- narrator.

Stiller, Ben, 1965- narrator.

Tambor, Jeffrey, 1944- narrator.

Tweedy, Jeff, 1967- narrator.

Whitford, Bradley, narrator.

Wilson, Patrick, 1973- narrator.

Wilson, Rainn, 1966- narrator.

Title from container.

Compact discs.

Unabridged.

"Featuring 166 narrators"--Container cover.

Read by Nick Offerman, David Sedaris and George Saunders, with a full cast that includes Carrie Brownstein, Don Cheadle, Kat Dennings, Lena Dunham, Bill Hader, Miranda July, Mary Karr, Keegan-Michael Key, Julianne Moore, Megan Mullally, Mike O'Brien, Susan Sarandon, Ben Stiller, Jeffrey Tambor, Jeff Tweedy, Bradley Whitford, Patrick Wilson, and Rainn Wilson.

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