About Grace - Brossura

Doerr, Anthony

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0143036165 ISBN 13: 9780143036166

Casa editrice: Penguin Group USA, 2005

Riassunto

Possessing an unsettling ability to predict random future events, Anchorage resident David Winkler foresees his infant daughter's drowning death and travels thousands of miles to Ohio and the Caribbean to prevent the tragedy, learning about human frailty and the importance of everyday miracles along the way. By the author of The Shell Collector. A first novel. Reader's Guide available. Reprint.

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Recensione:

"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

L'autore:

Anthony Doerr is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of All the Light We Cannot See. His stories have also appeared in numerous publications, including theO. Henry Prize Stories, Atlantic Monthly, Zoetrope: All Story, andThe Paris Review. His first book, The Shell Collector, was published in 2002 and recently was awarded the Barnes & Noble Discover Prize and the New York Public Library's Young Lions Award.

He lives in Boise, Idaho where he teaches M.F.A. students at Boise State University.

Anthony Doerr is a fiction writer whose stories have appeared in numerous publications, including theO. Henry Prize Stories, Atlantic Monthly, Zoetrope: All Story, andThe Paris Review. His first book, The Shell Collector, was published in 2002 and recently was awarded the Barnes & Noble Discover Prize and the New York Public Library's Young Lions Award.

He lives in Boise, Idaho where he teaches M.F.A. students at Boise State University.

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• Editore: Penguin Group USA
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0143036165
• ISBN 13: 9780143036166
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 402