| International Standard Book Number |
9780525509622
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| International Standard Book Number |
0525509623
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| Dewey Decimal Classification Number |
813/.6 23/eng/20251217
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| Other Classification Number |
18.06 bcl
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| Personal Name |
Saunders, George, 1958- author.
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| Title Statement |
Vigil : a novel / George Saunders.
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| Edition Statement |
First edition.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
New York, NY : Random House, 2026.
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| Physical Description |
174 pages ; 22 cm
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| Content Type |
text txt rdacontent
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| Media Type |
unmediated n rdamedia
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| Carrier Type |
volume rdacarrier
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| Summary, Etc. |
"Not for the first time, Jill 'Doll' Blaine finds herself hurtling toward earth, reconstituting as she falls, right down to her favorite black pumps. She plummets towards her newest charge, yet another soul she must usher into the afterlife, and lands headfirst in the circular drive of his ornate mansion. She has performed this sacred duty 343 times since her own death. Her charges, as a rule, have been greatly comforted in their final moments. But this one, she soon discovers, isn't like the others. The powerful K.J. Boone will not be consoled, because he has nothing to regret. He lived a big, bold, epic life, and the world is better for it. Isn't it? Vigil transports us, careening, through the wild final evening of a complicated man. Visitors begin to arrive (worldly and otherworldly, alive and dead), clamoring for a reckoning. Birds swarm the dying man's room; a black calf grazes on the love seat; a man from a distant, drought-ravaged village materializes; two oil-business cronies from decades past show up with chilling plans for Boone's postdeath future. With the wisdom, playfulness, and explosive imagination we've come to expect, George Saunders takes on the gravest issues of our time--the menace of corporate greed, the toll of capitalism, the environmental perils of progress--and, in the process, spins a tale that encompasses life and death, good and evil, and the thorny question of absolution. "-- Provided by publisher.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Future life.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Death.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Businessmen.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Spirits.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Rich people.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Avarice.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Chief executive officers.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Petroleum industry and trade - Environmental aspects.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Repentance.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Ecofiction. lcgft
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Fiction. lcgft
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Ghost stories. lcgft
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Novels. lcgft
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| Location |
Mary Meuser PL F SAU 30091000873904
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