About Grace by Anthony Doerr
The first novel by Anthony Doerr, the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning author of Cloud Cuckoo Land, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning #1 New York Times bestseller All the Light We Cannot See, one of the most beautiful, wise, and compelling debuts of recent times. David Winkler begins life in Anchorage, Alaska, a quiet boy drawn to the volatility of weather and obsessed with snow. Sometimes he sees things before they happen--a man carrying a hatbox will be hit by a bus; Winkler will fall in love with a woman in a supermarket. When David dreams that his infant daughter will drown in a flood as he tries to save her, he comes undone. He travels thousands of miles, fleeing family, home, and the future itself, to deny the dream. On a Caribbean island, destitute, alone, and unsure if his child has survived or his wife can forgive him, David is sheltered by a couple with a daughter of their own. Ultimately it is she who will pull him back into the world, to search for the people he left behind. Doerr's characters are full of grief and longing, but also replete with grace. His compassion for human frailty is extraordinarily moving. In luminous prose, he writes about the power and beauty of nature and about the tiny miracles that transform our lives. About Grace is heartbreaking, radiant, and astonishingly accomplished.Anthony Doerr is the author of All the Light We Cannot See, a #1 New York Times bestseller that won the Pulitzer Prize, the Carnegie Medal, and the Alex Award. He's also the author of Memory Wall and The Shell Collector, as well as the novel About Grace and the memoir Four Seasons in Rome. He has five O's to his name. The Henry Awards, the Rome Prize, the Young Lions Award from the New York Public Library, the National Magazine Award for fiction, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Story Prize are among the awards he has received. Doerr was born and reared in Cleveland, Ohio, and now lives with his wife and two sons in Boise, Idaho.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781476789019 |
| ISBN 10 | 1476789010 |
| Title | About Grace |
| Author | Anthony Doerr |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Scribner Book Company |
| Year published | 2015-10-06 |
| Number of pages | 432 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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