Author Event - George Saunders, "Vigil"

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Acclaimed Novelist

George Saunders

"Vigil"

St. Louis County Library - Clark Family Branch

Post Event Space

1640 S. Lindbergh Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63131

#1 bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of “Lincoln in the Bardo,” George Saunders presents a wise and playful novel that takes place at the deathbed of an oil tycoon. Crowds of people and animals—worldly and otherworldly—arrive, clamoring for a reckoning. Birds swarm the dying man’s room, a man from a distant, drought-ravaged village materializes, two oil-business cronies show up with chilling plans. With the explosive imagination we’ve come to expect, Saunders takes on the gravest issues of our time– corporate greed and 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.

INDIVIDUAL TICKET $38(Admits ONE and includes one copy of “Vigil"

• A signing/photo line will follow the presentation.

Seating will be offered on a first come, first served basis.

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