{"product_id":"lincoln-in-the-bardo","title":"Lincoln in the Bardo","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eWinner of the 2017 Man Booker Prize\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn his long-awaited first novel, American master George Saunders delivers his most original, transcendent and moving work yet. Unfolding in a graveyard over the course of a single night, narrated by a dazzling chorus of voices, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eLincoln in the Bardo\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a literary experience unlike any other, for no one but Saunders could conceive it.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFebruary 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 11-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 returned to the crypt several times alone to hold his boy's body.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom 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. 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe 166-person full cast features award-winning actors and musicians, as well as a number of Saunders' family, friends, and members of his publishing team, including, in order of their appearance:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNick Offerman as HANS VOLLMAN\u003cbr\u003eDavid Sedaris as ROGER BEVINS III\u003cbr\u003eCarrie Brownstein as ISABELLE PERKINS\u003cbr\u003eGeorge Saunders as THE REVEREND EVERLY THOMAS\u003cbr\u003eMiranda July as MRS. ELIZABETH CRAWFORD\u003cbr\u003eLena Dunham as ELISE TRAYNOR\u003cbr\u003eBen Stiller as JACK MANDERS vJulianne Moore as JANE ELLIS\u003cbr\u003eSusan Sarandon as MRS. ABIGAIL BLASS\u003cbr\u003eBradley Whitford as LT. CECIL STONE\u003cbr\u003eBill Hader as EDDIE BARON\u003cbr\u003eMegan Mullally as BETSY BARON\u003cbr\u003eRainn Wilson as PERCIVAL “DASH” COLLIER\u003cbr\u003eJeff Tweedy as CAPTAIN WILLIAM PRINCE\u003cbr\u003eKat Dennings as MISS TAMARA DOOLITTLE\u003cbr\u003eJeffrey Tambor as PROFESSOR EDMUND BLOOMER\u003cbr\u003eMike O’Brien as LAWRENCE T. DECROIX\u003cbr\u003eKeegan-Michael Key as ELSON FARWELL\u003cbr\u003eDon Cheadle as THOMAS HAVENS\u003cbr\u003eand Patrick Wilson as STANLEY “PERFESSER” LIPPERT\u003cbr\u003ewith Kirby Heyborne as WILLIE LINCOLN,\u003cbr\u003eMary Karr as MRS. ROSE MILLAND,\u003cbr\u003eand Cassandra Campbell as Your Narrator.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bookduku","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49088185467050,"sku":null,"price":423.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0715\/4063\/7866\/files\/516ed9vXwxL._SY300_SX300_QL70_FMwebp.webp?v=1788139815","url":"https:\/\/bookduku.com\/products\/lincoln-in-the-bardo","provider":"Bookduku","version":"1.0","type":"link"}