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About Grace

Pages
402
Published
2004
Language
English

Synopsis

David Winkler, a quiet boy from Alaska, possesses a unique ability to foresee future events. When a terrifying dream shows his infant daughter drowning, he flees his family and home, desperate to prevent the vision from coming true. Alone on a Caribbean island, David must confront his past and the possibility of loss, eventually embarking on a journey to find the loved ones he abandoned.

About the author

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Anthony Doerr

Anthony Doerr was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio. He is the author of the story collections The Shell Collector and Memory Wall, the memoir Four Seasons in Rome, and the novels About Grace and All the Light We Cannot See, which was awarded the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for fiction and the 2015 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. Doerr’s short stories and essays have won four O. Henry Prizes and been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories, New American Stories, The Best Ame...

Characters

David WinklerProtagonist
Winkler's infant daughterSupporting
Winkler's wifeSupporting
Couple with a daughterSupporting
Daughter of the coupleSupporting
All characters in About Grace
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