Lincoln in the Bardo: A Novel Audiobook (Free)

***WINNER FROM THE 2018 AUDIE AWARD FOR AUDIOBOOK OF THE YEAR***

The long-awaited first novel from the writer of Tenth of December: a moving and original father-son story featuring none apart from Abraham Lincoln, aswell as an unforgettable cast of supporting characters, living and lifeless, historical and invented

February 1862. The Civil Battle is less than one year aged. The fighting offers begun in earnest, and the nation provides begun to realize it is set for a long, bloody struggle. In the mean time, President about Lincoln in the Bardo: A Book Lincoln’s favorite eleven-year-old boy, Willie, lies upstairs in the White colored House, gravely ill. In a matter of days, despite predictions of the recovery, Willie dies and it is laid to rest within a Georgetown cemetery. “My poor youngster, he was too best for this globe,” the leader says at the time. “God provides called him home.” Newspapers record that a grief-stricken Lincoln earnings, alone, towards the crypt many times to hold his boy’s body.

From that seed of historical truth, George Saunders spins an unforgettable story of familial like and loss that breaks free from its realistic, historical framework right into a supernatural realm both hilarious and terrifying. Willie Lincoln finds himself within a strange purgatory where spirits mingle, gripe, commiserate, quarrel, and enact bizarre works of penance. Within this transitional state-called, in the Tibetan custom, the bardo-a monumental struggle erupts over young Willie’s soul.

Lincoln in the Bardo is an astonishing feat of creativity and a bold step forward in one of the very most important and influential writers of his era. Formally daring, large in spirit, deeply worried about matters from the heart, it is a testament to fiction’s capability to speak truthfully and powerfully to things that really matter to us. Saunders provides invented a thrilling new form that deploys a kaleidoscopic, theatrical panorama of voices to question a timeless, profound question: How do we live and like when we know that everything we like must end?

The 166-person whole cast features award-winning actors and musicians, and a amount of Saunders’ family, friends, and members of his publishing team, including, in order of the look of them:

Nick Offerman as HANS VOLLMAN

David Sedaris as ROGER BEVINS III

Carrie Brownstein as ISABELLE PERKINS

George Saunders as THE REVEREND EVERLY THOMAS

Miranda July as MRS. ELIZABETH CRAWFORD

Lena Dunham as ELISE TRAYNOR

Ben Stiller as JACK MANDERS

Julianne Moore as JANE ELLIS

Susan Sarandon as MRS. ABIGAIL BLASS

Bradley Whitford as LT. CECIL STONE

Bill Hader as EDDIE BARON

Megan Mullally as BETSY BARON

Rainn Wilson as PERCIVAL “DASH” COLLIER

Jeff Tweedy as CAPTAIN WILLIAM PRINCE

Kat Dennings as MISS TAMARA DOOLITTLE

Jeffrey Tambor as Teacher EDMUND BLOOMER

Mike O’Brien as LAWRENCE T. DECROIX

Keegan-Michael Essential as ELSON FARWELL

Don Cheadle as THOMAS HAVENS

and

Patrick Wilson as STANLEY “PERFESSER” LIPPERT

with

Kirby Heyborne as WILLIE LINCOLN,

Mary Karr as MRS. ROSE MILLAND,

and Cassandra Campbell as Your Narrator

Praise for the audiobook

“Lincoln in the Bardo’ sets a new regular for solid recordings in it is structure, in its performances, and in its boldness. Today, let’s observe who answers the task.” – Chicago Tribune

“Just like the book, the audiobook breaks fresh surface in what can be achieved through a tale. It helps that there’s not really a single bad be aware in the cast of a whopping 166 people. It’s also the uncommon phenomenon of an audiobook being a completely different experience compared to the book. Even if you’ve browse the novel, the audiobook is worth a listen (and vice versa). The whole project pushes the narrative type forward.” – A.V. Membership

“The effect can be an auditory knowledge unlike every other, where the knowing of individual voices disappears while the carefully calibrated soundscape summons a metaphysical masterpiece. That is a tour de push of audiobook creation, and a stunning realization of Saunders’ unique authorial structure.”-Booklist

“The completed audiobook’s tapestry of voices properly mirrors the novel.”-Entertainment Weekly

Praise for George Saunders

“No one writes even more powerfully than George Saunders about the dropped, the unlucky, the disenfranchised.”-Michiko Kakutani, THE BRAND NEW York Times

“Saunders enables you to feel as if you are reading fiction for the very first time.”-Khaled Hosseini

“Few people cut as hard or deep as Saunders does.”-Junot Díaz

“George Saunders is certainly a complete unique. There is no one better, no-one more essential to our national feeling of personal and sanity.”-Dave Eggers

“Not really since Twain has America produced a satirist this funny.”-Zadie Smith

“There is no one like him. He’s an original-but everyone knows that.”-Lorrie Moore

“George Saunders makes the all-but-impossible look effortless. We’re lucky to have him.”-Jonathan Franzen

“An astoundingly tuned voice-graceful, dark, genuine, and funny-telling just the types of stories we need to obtain us through these times.”-Thomas Pynchon