About Grace - Softcover

Doerr, Anthony

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0143036165 ISBN 13: 9780143036166

Publisher: Penguin Group USA, 2005

Synopsis

Anthony Doerr is the author of the New York Times #1 Bestseller All the Light We Cannot See, named one of the best books of 2014 by the Washington Post, NPR's Fresh Air, and The New York Times Book Review, among others.The Los Angeles Times called his stories in The Shell Collector "as close to faultless as any writer young or vastly experienced could wish for."About Grace, his first novel, has been hailed as one of the most compelling and entrancing novels 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.

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Monica Ali author of "Brick Lane" I loved this wonderful book -- its strangeness, its obsessiveness, its beautiful sentences.

This mesmerizing novel is pitch perfect... utterly unforgettable. ("Seattle Post-Intelligencer") An extended meditation on the tides and eddies of life itself, spun out in sentences that never fail to thrill. ("Los Angeles Times") One of those novels that works its way into your very dreams. ("Newsday") Gorgeous, transporting, and deeply, deeply satisfying. (Karen Joy Fowler, author of "The Jane Austen Book Club")

"This mesmerizing novel is pitch perfect... utterly unforgettable." Seattle Post-Intelligencer

"An extended meditation on the tides and eddies of life itself, spun out in sentences that never fail to thrill." Los Angeles Times

"One of those novels that works its way into your very dreams." Newsday

"Gorgeous, transporting, and deeply, deeply satisfying." Karen Joy Fowler, author of The Jane Austen Book Club

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‘I loved this wonderful book’ Monica Ali

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Group USA
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0143036165
• ISBN 13: 9780143036166
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 402