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15 regular print copies, 5 large print copies
"A Dantesque tour through a Georgetown cemetery teeming with spirits, the book takes place on a February night in 1862, when Abraham Lincoln visits the grave of his recently interred 11-year-old son, Willie. The distraught Lincoln's nocturnal visit has a 'vivifying effect' on the graveyard's spectral denizens, a gallery of grotesques who have chosen to loiter 'in the Bardo'--a Tibetan term for a liminal state--rather than face final judgment... Periodically interrupting the graveyard action are slyly arranged assemblies of historical accounts of the Lincoln era. These excerpts and Lincoln's anguished musings compose a collage-like portrait of a wartime president burdened by private and public grief, mourning his son's death as staggering battlefield reports test his (and the nation's) resolve"--Publishers Weekly. 343 pages.
