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About Grace

About Grace

Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
SKU: 9780007146994
R 230,00
R 195,50
Beautifully written and compelling, About Grace is the brilliant debut novel from Anthony Doerr.
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Beautifully written and compelling, About Grace is the brilliant debut novel from Anthony Doerr. Growing up in Alaska, young David Winkler is crippled by his dreams. At nine, he dreams a man is decapitated by a passing truck on the path outside his family's home. The next day, unable to prevent it, he witnesses an exact replay of his dream in real life. The premonitions keep coming, unstoppably. He sleepwalks during them, bringing catastrophe into his reach. Then, as unstoppable as a vision, he falls in love, at the supermarket (exactly as he already dreamed) with Sandy. They flee south, landing in Ohio, where their daughter Grace is born. And then the visions of Grace's death begin for Winkler, as their waterside home is inundated. Plagued by the same horrific images of Grace drowning, when the floods come, he cannot face his destiny and flees. He beaches on a remote Caribbean island, where he works as a handyman, chipping away at his doubts and hopes, never knowing whether Grace survived the flood or met the doom he foretold. After two decades, he musters the strength to find out...
Products specifications
ISBN13 9780007146994
Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
Contributor By (author) Anthony Doerr
Publication Date 2005-04-04
Language English
Format Paperback / softback
Pages 416
Product Dimensions (H x W x L) in mm 198 X 129 X 210
Short Description Beautifully written and compelling, About Grace is the brilliant debut novel from Anthony Doerr.
Author Biography Anthony Doerr's published his first book, `The Shell Collector', a collection of short stories in 2002. He is 32 and lives in Idaho, where he is Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at Boise State University.
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