George Saunders. LINCOLN IN THE BARDO. Random House, 2017. 1st HC/DJ. Signed!

Description: Normal.dotm 0 0 1 1279 7292 Lincoln Public Schools 60 14 8955 12.0 0 false 18 pt 18 pt 0 0 false false false Saunders, George. LINCOLN IN THE BARDO. NY: Random House, 2017. 1st edition. With number line 987654321 and "First Edition" printed on the copyright page, both of which indicate that this is the correct 1st edition, 1st printing. This is NOT a book club book. This is NOT an ex-library book. Signed and dated by George Saunders on the title page. Buyer beware: there were a number of later printings of LINCOLN IN THE BARDO that were published in this exact hardcover format and also in similar, but slightly different formats. This is the real deal: the true 1st edition, 1st printing. SCROLL DOWN THIS PAGE IMMEDIATELY TO SEE THE CONDITION OF THIS BOOK AND THIS DUST JACKET. George Saunders was born in 1958 Amarillo, Texas. He grew up in Oak Forest, Illinois, near Chicago. He graduated from Oak Forest High School. During his twenties, he worked at various jobs including as a roofer, a doorman in Beverly Hills, and a slaughterhouse knuckle-puller. In 1981 he received a B.S. in geophysical engineering from Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colorado. In 1988 he was awarded an M.A. in creative writing from Syracuse University, where he worked with Tobias Wolff. He has claimed that “I really love Russian writers . . . such as Gogol, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Babel . . . I love the way they take on the big topics . . . I’m also inspired by a certain absurdist comic tradition that would include influences like Mark Twain, Daniil Kharms, Groucho Marx, Monty Python, Steve Martin, Jack Handy . . . on top of that I love the strain of minimalist American writing [including] Sherwood Anderson, Ernest, Hemingway, Raymond Carver, Tobias Wolff . . . “ Since 1997 he has been on the faculty of Syracuse University, teaching creative writing in the schools MFA program . . . In 2006 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and a $500,000 MacArthur Fellowship. He writes both fiction and non-fiction. He is the author of such excellent books as CIVILWARLAND IN BAD DECLINE, PASTORALIA, THE BRIEF AND FRIGHTENING REIGN OF PHIL (novella), THE BRAINDEAD MEGAPHONE, IN PERSUASION NATION, TENTH OF DECEMBER: STORIES, LINCOLN IN THE BARDO (Saunders’s first novel; offered here), and several others. George Saunders has received the following awards and award nominations: 1994: “The 400-Pound CEO.” National Magazine Award winner for Fiction. 1996: “Bounty.” National Magazine Award winner for Fiction. 1996: CIVILWARLAND IN BAD DECLINE. PEN/Hemingway Award nominee for Best Writing. 1997: “The Falls.” O. Henry Award runner-up for Best Short Fiction. 2000: “The Barber’s Unhappiness.” National Magazine Award winner for Best Fiction. 2001: George Saunders is honored by being named a Lannan Literary Fellowship winner. 2003: “The Red Bow.” Bram Stoker Award nominee for Best Short Fiction. 2004: “The Red Bow.” National Magazine Award winner for Best Fiction. 2006: “IN PERSUASION NATION. The Story Prize nominee for Best Fiction. 2006: “CommComm.” World Fantasy Award winner for Best Short Story. 2006: George Saunders is honored by being named a MacArthur Fellowship winner. 2009: George Saunders is honored by being named a Guggenheim Fellowship winner. 2009: George Saunders is honored by being named an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award winner. 2012: “Home.” Bram Stoker Award nominee for Best Short Fiction. 2013: TENTH OF DECEMBER: STORIES. Goodreads Choice Award nominee for Best Fiction. 2013: TENTH OF DECEMBER: STORIES. The Story Prize Award winner for Best Fiction. 2013: TENTH OF DECEMBER: STORIES. New York Times Book Review “10 Best Books of 2013.” 2013: George Saunders is honored by being named a PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction. 2014: TENTH OF DECEMBER: STORIES. National Book Award nominee for Best Fiction. 2014: TENTH OF DECEMBER: STORIES. The Writers’ Prize Award winner for Best Fiction. 2014: George Saunders is honored by being named an American Academy of Arts and Sciences Elected Member. 2017: LINCOLN IN THE BARDO. Book Prize Award winner for Best Novel. 2018: LINCOLN IN THE BARDO. Locus Award nominee for Best First Novel. 2018: LINCOLN IN THE BARDO. Premio Gregor von Rezzori Award winner for Best Novel. 2018: George Saunders in honored by being named an American Academy of Arts and Letters Inductee. 2023: George Saunders is honored by being named a Library of Congress Prize Award winner for American Fiction. Clearly George Saunders is one of the best, most important, most famous, and most collectible modern fiction writers in the world. From the dust jacket: “ . . . In his long-awaited first novel, American literary 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, LINCOLN IN THE BARDO is an experience unlike any other — for no one but Saunders could conceive it . . . 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. ‘My poor boy, he was to good for this earth,’ the president says at the time. ‘God has called him home.’ Newspapers report that a grief-stricken Lincoln returns, alone, to the crypt several times to hold his son’s body . . . From 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 . . . LINCOLN IN THE BARDO is an astonishing feat of imagination and a bold step forward from one of the most important and influential writers of his generation. Formally daring, generous in spirit, deeply concerned with matters of the heart, it is a testament to fiction’s ability to speak honestly and powerfully to the things that really matter to us. Saunders has invented a thrilling new form that deploys a kaleidoscopic, theatrical panorama of voices — living and dead, historical and invented — to ask a timeless, profound question: How do we live and love when we know that everything we love must end? . . . “ Signed and dated by George Saunders on the title page. From the rear flap of the dust jacket: “ . . . GEORGE SAUNDERS is the author of eight books, including the story collections PASTORALIA and TENTH OF DECEMBER, which was a finalist for the National Book Award. He has received fellowships from the Lannan Foundation, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Guggenheim Foundation. In 2006 he was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. In 2013 he was awarded the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction and was included in Time’s list of the one hundred most influential people in the world. He teaches in the creative writing program at Syracuse University . . . “ From the rear panel of the dust jacket: Praise for GEORGE SAUNDERS “No one writes more powerfully than George Saunders about the lost, the unlucky, the disenfranchised.” MICHIKO KAKUTANI, The New York Times “Saunders makes you feel as though you are reading fiction for the first time.” KHALED HOSSEINI “Few people cut as hard or deep as Saunders does.” JUNOT DIAZ “George Saunders is a complet original. There is no one better, no one more essential to our national sense of self and sanity.” DAVE EGGERS “Not since Twain has America produced a satirist this funny.” ZADIE SMITH “There is no one like him. He is an original — but everyone knows that.” LORRIE MOORE “An astoundingly tuned voice — graceful, dark, authentic, and funny — telling just the kinds of stories we need to get us through these times.” THOMAS PYNCHON _______________________________________________________________________________________________ I grade books and dust jackets: fine, near fine, very good, good, fair, and poor. I describe all faults. If you sell books on EBAY (or anywhere else), it is de rigueur not to list 1st printings of book club books as 1st editions (unless they ARE the 1st edition, which occurs only occasionally); also, a 1st edition, 7th printing, is not a 1st edition. Ex-library books must be noted as such since generally they are of little value to the collector of 1st editions. Condition is also very important to those collectors. Books and dust jackets must be described in detail. In other words, it is incumbent upon the SELLER to know what is and is not a 1st edition. Mistakes can be made (and corrected), of course, but if you DON'T KNOW, don't try to sell a book as a 1st edition. _______________________________________________________________________________________________ CONDITION: A FINE book in a FINE dust jacket. The book is tight and square in its black quarter-cloth and gray-boards binding with gilt lettering on the spine of the book. There is no writing in the book (except for George Saunders’s signature on the title page); no bookplates; no remainder marks. The dust jacket is NOT price-clipped and shows the correct 1st issue price of $28.00. There are no chips, no tears, and no wrinkles to the dust jacket. This is a very sharp, collector’s copy of this book. Signed and dated by George Saunders on the title page. The famous dust jacket design is by Chelsea Cardinal. The dust jacket illustration is “Landscape with Abraham and Isaac,” engraving by John Bye and E. Webb after Gaspard Dughet. A note on the photos in this listing: the photos of the dust jacket were taken while the dust jacket was encased in a protective Brodart dust jacket protector. Any apparent "smudges" or darkening or discolorations or glare is due to the reflections from the dust jacket protector. There are no flaws to the dust jacket (and no flaws to the book). I decided not to remove the dust jacket from the dust jacket protector when I took the photos. I can provide photos of the dust jacket without the dust jacket protector on the dust jacket, if necessary. 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