About Grace
By Anthony Doerr
(Penguin (Non-Classics), Paperback, 9780143036166, 416pp.)
Publication Date: September 2005
Categories: General
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Anthony Doerr's short-story collection The Shell Collector was praised by the Los Angeles Times as being "as close to faultless as any writer--young or vastly experienced--could wish for." One of the finest young writers today, Doerr has the ability to not only spin beautiful prose but also keep readers captivated with his imagination and fully realized characters. With About Grace, he delivers one of the wisest and most compelling first novels of recent times. In luminous prose, Doerr tells the story of David Winkler, a man graced with the gift of premonition and plagued by a dream that foretells his daughter's death. Ranging from Alaska to Ohio to the Caribbean, About Grace is a heartbreaking, radiant, and astonishingly accomplished novel about the tiny but lifesaving miracles happening around us at each moment.
Anthony Doerr is the author of The Shell Collector, a collection of stories that won the 2002 Discover Prize for Fiction and the Ohioana Book Award, as well as a New York Public Library's Young Lions Award.
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)
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