04384cam a2200757 4500 2669387185 TxAuBib 20260130120000.0 ||||||s2026||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780525509639 0525509631 B0FHPSPB4J Amazon 0a65bb64-c4e2-4f47-af77-aaa7d3e92a49 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 12119928 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Saunders, George. Vigil [Libby eBook] : A Novel. Random House Publishing Group, 2026. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. contemporary literature. realistic fiction books. late stage capitalism. george saunders books. Vigil George Saunders. supernatural fiction. literary fiction. Environmentalism. Corporate Greed. The environment. George Saunders. haunted houses. Global Warming. Haunted places. Literary gifts. Ghost Stories. haunted house. fiction books. books fiction. big business. Environment. ghost story. Capitalism. literature. morality. Fiction. mystery. fantasy. haunted. ghosts. Nature. novels. Horror. Wealth. ghost. Death. dying. Vigil. HTML:<b>“After his spectacular <i>Lincoln in the Bardo,</i> Saunders returns . . . with a new novel even more spectacular than the last.”—<i>Los Angeles Times<br /></i>A “daring” (<i>Time</i>) novel from the #1 <i>New York Times</i> bestselling, Booker Prize–winning author of <i>A Swim in a Pond in the Rain</i> and <i>Tenth of December,</i> 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<br /> “Vibrant, fiendishly clever . . . <i>Vigil</i> is pure Saunders: the death of empathy, he insists, is greatly exaggerated.”—<i>The Boston Globe</i></b><br /> 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.<br /> 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, 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?<br /> <i>Vigil</i> 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.<br /> 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. Literature. Fantasy. Fiction. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2026-01-29 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=0a65bb64-c4e2-4f47-af77-aaa7d3e92a49&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=0a65bb64-c4e2-4f47-af77-aaa7d3e92a49&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)