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Condition: used.
Pages: 416
Awards: About Grace was a Washington Post Bookworld Book of the Year, a main pick for the Daily Mail book club in London, a finalist for the PEN USA Fiction Award, the Book of-the-Month Club picked it as one of the five best books of 2004, and it topped the Seattle-Post Intelligencer's best of 2004 list.
StoryLine/review from The Washington Post:
David Winkler, the 59-year-old protagonist of Anthony Doerr's debut novel, About Grace, is a dreamer but not, alas, of the carefree, California kind. Instead Winkler is a modern-day Cassandra who dreams about future events -- some momentous, some trivial -- and when he tries to warn people, he meets, for the most part, with incredulity and skepticism.
As a result of this questionable gift, he also shares characteristics with two other legendary figures: Like Oedipus, Winkler is cursed with a terrible prophecy about himself that he does his utmost to avoid, and, like Odysseus, he must go on a long journey and endure many hardships before he can return home. In the hands of a lesser writer, these mythic premises might prove disastrous, but in those of the wonderfully talented Doerr, the result is a beautiful and expansive novel.
Review:"This mesmerizing debut novel is a pitch-perfect examination of love and regret by a much-honored young literary writer now living in Boise, Idaho.
Doerr tracks the unlikely life of a scientific everyman in Alaska, who is haunted by frightening premonitions that come true.
When he dreams that his infant daughter dies in a flood, David Winkler flees his wife and child and takes refuge on a Caribbean Island, where he subsists for two decades, unsure of their fate.
His return to the United States, in hopes of reconnection and reconciliation, produces a startling odyssey that grips the heart in a tightening vise. An utterly unforgettable novel."
John Marshall, Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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