Abraham Lincoln Seth Grahame-Smith | ISBN : 0-446-56308-0

Abraham Lincoln

Author: Seth Grahame-Smith

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing

Publication Date: 02 March, 2010

ISBN: 9780446563086

Pages: 352

Subjects: Fantasy, Horror, New releases

Available as: Trade Cloth, 978-0-446-56308-6 E-Book - Open Ebook, 978-0-446-57185-2

Description:

From the man who brought you Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: a tale of Lincoln, who discovered that his mother was chewed to death by the local vampire. Hence his secret agenda to rid the world of bloodsuckers. Undoubtedly, there will be protests, and, undoubtedly, this will be huge.

PW Publishers Weekly

Review Source: Publishers Weekly

Review Date: 2010-01-11

Following the success of his bestselling Pride and Prejudice and Zombies with another melange of history and horror, Grahame-Smith inserts a grandiose and gratuitous struggle with vampires into Abraham Lincoln's life. Lincoln learns at an early age that his mother was killed by a supernatural predator. This provokes his bloody but curiously undocumented lifelong vendetta against vampires and their slave-owning allies. The author's decision to reduce slavery to a mere contrivance of the vampires is unfortunate bordering on repellent, but at least it does distract the reader from the central question of why the president never saw fit to inform the public of the supernatural menace. Grahame-Smith stitches hand-to-hand vampire combat into Lincoln's documented life with competent prose that never quite manages to convince. (Mar.) Copyright 2010 Reed Business Information.

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