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- Hardcover
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Seller: JW Barker Books & Antiques, Natchez, MS, U.S.A.JW Barker Books & Antiques
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Condition: Used - Good
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First printing, good hardcover shows a stain at bottom corner of front cover and ink notations to a handful of pages, in a near fine dust jacket (price at flap). Solid copy of these stories from the noted author.
Seller Inventory # 33129
- Title
- Memory Wall
- Author
- Doerr, Anthony
- Publisher
- Scribner
- Publication year
- 2010
- Condition
- Good
- Dust jacket
- Near fine
- Binding
- Quarter cloth
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1439182809
- ISBN 13
- 9781439182802
- Edition
- First.
Set on four continents, Anthony Doerr's new stories are about memory, the source of meaning and coherence in our lives, the fragile thread that connects us to ourselves and to others. Every hour, says Doerr, all over the globe, an infinite number of memories disappear. Yet at the same time children, surveying territory that is entirely new to them, push back the darkness, form fresh memories, and remake the world.
In the luminous and beautiful title story, a young boy in South Africa comes to possess an old woman's secret, a piece of the past with the power to redeem a life. In "The River Nemunas," a teenage orphan moves from Kansas to Lithuania to live with her grandfather, and discovers a world in which myth becomes real. "Village 113," winner of an O'Henry Prize, is about the building of the Three Gorges Dam and the seed keeper who guards the history of a village soon to be submerged. And in "Afterworld," the radiant, cathartic final story, a woman who escaped the Holocaust is haunted by visions of her childhood friends in Germany, yet finds solace in the tender ministrations of her grandson.
Every story in Memory Wall is a reminder of the grandeur of life--of the mysterious beauty of seeds, of fossils, of sturgeon, of clouds, of radios, of leaves, of the breathtaking fortune of living in this universe. Doerr's language, his witness, his imagination, and his humanity are unparalleled in fiction today.
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Review
“"Memory Wall" not only captivates from start to finish, it is the kind of book likely to restore your faith in the pleasures of storytelling.... It’s rare to encounter a writer who is able to make us see the world around us in new ways. And yet Doerr does so on every page.”—"Boston Globe"
“Everywhere in Tony Doerr's work, there's light and stone and unimaginable distance, while our hearts go on about their steady work. His subject is what we would hear on the most macrocosmic and intimate levels, if only we were to listen more closely. I love "Memory Wall" for the empathetic reach of its imagination, for the intelligence of its meditation on the consolations of memory, and especially for the tenderness and care with which it presents the ongoing miracle of humanity's daily interaction with the world. These are beautiful and moving stories.”—Jim Shepard, author of "Like You’d Understand, Anyway"
“When I finished the last page of Anthony Doerr’s "Memory Wall", I sat stunned and blinking, unable to leave the strange and vivid and utterly believable world he’d created. Read this book—it will change how you think about memory, time, love, and the way we record and try to keep the things we can’t live without.”—Maile Meloy, "Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It"
“Beautiful passages and vivid imagery . . . Readers hungry for unconventional narratives and lovers of fine writing will find much to savor in this impressive collection.”--"Booklist"
Doerr writes about the big questions, the imponderables, the major metaphysical dreads, and he does it fearlessly. New York Times Book Review"
"Doerr writes about the big questions, the imponderables, the major metaphysical dreads, and he does it fearlessly."--New York Times Book Review
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JW Barker Books & Antiques
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