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About Grace : A Novel by Anthony Doerr is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is About Grace : A Novel about?
When Anthony Doerr's The Shell Collector was published in 2002, the Los Angeles Times called his stories "as close to faultless as any writer -- young or vastly experienced -- could wish for." He won the Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Discover Prize, Princeton's Hodder Fellowship, and two O. Henrys, and shared the Young Lions Award. Now he has written one of the most beautiful, wise, and compelling first 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, an...
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Anthony Doerr
- Publisher
- Scribner
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781439103784
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Literary Fiction
- Rating
- 3.44 / 5 (112 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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