About Grace, Anthony Doerr
About Grace, Anthony Doerr
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About Grace

Author: Anthony Doerr

Narrator: George Newbern

Unabridged: 12 hr 55 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/07/2015


Synopsis

The first novel by Anthony Doerr, the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning author of Cloud Cuckoo Land, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning #1 New York Times bestseller All the Light We Cannot See, one of the most beautiful, wise, and compelling debuts 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, and unsure if his child has survived or his wife can forgive him, David is sheltered by a couple with a daughter of their own. Ultimately it is she who will pull him back into the world, to search for the people he left behind.

Doerr's characters are full of grief and longing, but also replete with grace. His compassion for human frailty is extraordinarily moving. In luminous prose, he writes about the power and beauty of nature and about the tiny miracles that transform our lives. About Grace is heartbreaking, radiant, and astonishingly accomplished.

About Anthony Doerr

Anthony Doerr is the author of the New York Times bestselling Cloud Cuckoo Land, which was a finalist for the National Book Award, and All the Light We Cannot See, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the Carnegie Medal, the Alex Award, and a #1 New York Times bestseller. He is also the author of the story collections Memory Wall and The Shell Collector, the novel About Grace, and the memoir Four Seasons in Rome. He has won five O. Henry Prizes, the Rome Prize, the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Award, the National Magazine Award for fiction, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Story Prize. Born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, Doerr lives in Boise, Idaho, with his wife and two sons.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Violet on March 07, 2016

This novel, like a teenage relationship, took me from love to loathing in the space of two weeks. Part one was fabulous. (I apologise to friends to whom I prematurely recommended this book). David Winkler, a character whose naivety and social ineptness makes Dostoevsky’s Idiot appear like Machiavell......more

Goodreads review by Jaline on April 23, 2017

Throughout the journey this book took me on, grace was present everywhere that it was allowed. (Sometimes it's amazing how we gift grace to others but don't allow it for ourselves.) The magic of aspects of nature were here - in water's many forms, the world of insects, the seasons and various locale......more

Goodreads review by Pat on October 26, 2014

After reading All the Light We Cannot See, which I found thought-provoking and beautifully written, I wanted to read more of Doerr's work. The title "About Grace" looked promising, so I downloaded it. But the book didn't hold a candle (hoho) to All the Light We Cannot See. Some of the prose was love......more

Goodreads review by Helene Jeppesen on September 12, 2020

This was an absolutely wonderful book that took me a while to get into (because of Doerr’s intricate, poetic language), but which ended up taking me to wonderful and diverse settings. All settings are combined with water, which is also the main character’s, David’s, big fascination in life. Water ta......more

Goodreads review by Belinda on January 20, 2020

3,75 sterren - Nederlandse Paperback 🦋🦋🦋 *** Hij noemde ze dromen. Geen voorspellingen of visioenen, en ook geen voorgevoelens of waarschuwingen. Door ze dromen te noemen kwam hij het dichtst bij wat ze waren; gewaarwordingen, ervaringen, die hem overkwamen terwijl hij lag te slapen en weer vervaagde......more