Abraham Lincoln: A Novel Life

Imagine Abraham Lincoln walking the streets of Evanston, Illinois, on Easter weekend in 1955, just a man suddenly and magically free of the terrible burden of leading the nation through war. How will the Great Emancipator react to this new world, where he finds comfort and love in the arms of a young widow? How will learning of his own death affect his efforts to end the war when he suddenly returns to the horrors of 1865?

Abraham Lincoln: A Novel Life answers these provocative questions in a singular depiction of emotional reality and temporal fantasy that brings America's most beloved president to life as never before. Tony Wolk tells this haunting tale from the perspectives of Lincoln and three women in his real and fictional life.

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Abraham Lincoln: A Novel Life

Imagine Abraham Lincoln walking the streets of Evanston, Illinois, on Easter weekend in 1955, just a man suddenly and magically free of the terrible burden of leading the nation through war. How will the Great Emancipator react to this new world, where he finds comfort and love in the arms of a young widow? How will learning of his own death affect his efforts to end the war when he suddenly returns to the horrors of 1865?

Abraham Lincoln: A Novel Life answers these provocative questions in a singular depiction of emotional reality and temporal fantasy that brings America's most beloved president to life as never before. Tony Wolk tells this haunting tale from the perspectives of Lincoln and three women in his real and fictional life.

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Abraham Lincoln: A Novel Life

Abraham Lincoln: A Novel Life

by Tony Wolk
Abraham Lincoln: A Novel Life

Abraham Lincoln: A Novel Life

by Tony Wolk

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Overview

Imagine Abraham Lincoln walking the streets of Evanston, Illinois, on Easter weekend in 1955, just a man suddenly and magically free of the terrible burden of leading the nation through war. How will the Great Emancipator react to this new world, where he finds comfort and love in the arms of a young widow? How will learning of his own death affect his efforts to end the war when he suddenly returns to the horrors of 1865?

Abraham Lincoln: A Novel Life answers these provocative questions in a singular depiction of emotional reality and temporal fantasy that brings America's most beloved president to life as never before. Tony Wolk tells this haunting tale from the perspectives of Lincoln and three women in his real and fictional life.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781932010671
Publisher: Ooligan Press
Publication date: 02/01/2004
Series: The Out of Time Series
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

Tony Wolk has taught English at Portland State University since 1965, specializing in Renaissance literature, science fiction, and writing classes.

Table of Contents

Foreword9
IHistory - 10 April 195515
IILunch with Mr. Lincoln - 10 April 195540
IIISouth - 10 April 195551
IVThe Theater - 10 April 195561
VDessert at the Hebrew National - 10 April 195568
VINorth - 10 April 195575
VIISailing On - 10 April 195587
VIIIThe Ninth Moon - 10 April 195594
IXChoosing Sides - 5 February 186596
XThis House of Houses - 5 February 1865101
XIAnother Landscape - 11 April 1955110
XIIHome Sweet Home - 5 February 1865115
XIIIShadows into Stories - 5 February 1865126
XIVDown to the Raisins - 5 February 1865134
XVOn Lafayette Square - 21 March 1865138
XVIGhosts - 21 March 1865143
XVIIProverbial Joan - 5 June 1955154
XVIIIAt Sally's House - 1 April 1865158
XIXA Majesty of Minds - 1 April 1865164
XXThe Presidentess - 2 April 1865173
XXIThe Harvest - 6 June 1955180
XXIIThe Father of Us All - 4 April 1865189
XXIIIDrunkard's Path - 4 April 1865198
XXIVConfirmation - 9 June 1955207
Afterword215
Author's Note217
Notes on Historical Figures220
Acknowledgments251
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