About Grace

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Anthony Doerr: About Grace (2004, Fourth estate, HarperPerennial, Fourth Estate Ltd)

402 pages

English language

Published 2004 by Fourth estate, HarperPerennial, Fourth Estate Ltd.

ISBN:
978-0-00-720081-8
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OCLC Number:
224325998

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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.

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  • Psychic ability
  • Fiction