Author: George Saunders
Genre:
Fiction, History
Format: Hardcover
Description:
Lincoln in the Bardo is a novel based on the true story of the death of William Wallace 'Willie' Lincoln a son of United States President Abraham Lincoln. In 1862, Willie Lincoln died of typhoid fever at the age of 11. The novel opens in the bardo, which is an intermediary state between life and the afterlife. Willie Lincoln materializes in the bardo and is greeted by Hans Vollman a deceased printer who was killed at the age of 46 by a falling support beam and Roger Bevins III a young man who took his life after being rebuffed by a young man named Gilbert with whom Bevins was in love.