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Vigil : A Novel.
A wise, playful, electric novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling, Booker Prizewinning author of Lincoln in the Bardo (9780812995343), taking place at the bedside of an oil company CEO, in the twilight hours of his life, as he is ferried from this world into the next.
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- ISBN: 9780525509622
- Physical Description: 208 pages
- Publisher: Canada : Random House, 2026.
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An electric novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling, Booker Prizeâwinning author of Lincoln in the Bardo, taking place at the bedside of an oil company CEO in the twilight hours of his life as he is ferried from this world into the next
Not for the first time, Jill âDollâ 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 charge, she soon discovers, isnât 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. Isnât 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 manâs 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 Booneâs postdeath future.
With the wisdom, playfulness, and explosive imagination weâve come to expect, George Saunders takes on the gravest issues of our timeâthe menace of corporate greed, the toll of capitalism, the environmental perils of progressâand, in the process, spins a tale that encompasses life and death, good and evil, and the thorny question of absolution.
