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ABC : a novel by David Plante, letterkundige is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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From the critically acclaimed author of more than a dozen novels comes a luminous and haunting story about grief and obsession, and about the need for meaning at the center of all of our lives. In ABC s unforgettable opening scene, Gerard, Peggy, and their 6-year-old son Harry are canoeing in a New Hampshire cove and come upon an abandoned wreck of a house they have observed for years but never entered. When Harry presses his parents to let him go and explore, Gerard follows him in and watches in horror as a freak accident he is powerless to stop unfolds before him, and a summer family idyll becomes, in an incalculable instant, the beginning of unbearable anguish. Moments before Harry died, Gerard had picked up a crumpled piece of paper with letters of an unknown alphabet, which he later learns is Sanskrit. In the weeks following the accident he becomes obsessed with the origins of Indo-European alphabets, his fascination growing as boundless as his grief--and soon taking its place. Now, in pursuit of the story of the alphabet, he leaves his home, Peggy, his teaching job, and bands together with other grief-stricken abecedarians who believe that the alphabet as we know it had in it

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Author

David Plante, letterkundige

Publisher

New York: Pantheon Books

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9780375424618

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Historical Fiction

Rating

2.03 / 5 (58 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14