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21 de sept. de 2004 · About Grace opens as its protagonist, David Winkler, a fifty-nine-year-old scientist, especially fascinated by all forms of water, is on a plane bound from the small Caribbean island of St. Vincent to the US after a twenty-five-year absence.
A hydrologist tries to change his daughter's fate after a dream of her death. The novel explores snowflakes, predetermination, family, and nature in different settings and times.
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7 de nov. de 2004 · Nov. 7, 2004. ABOUT GRACE By Anthony Doerr. 402 pp. Scribner. $25. In his first novel, "About Grace," Anthony Doerr drags his protagonist, David Winkler, over a fair few hot coals: 25 years...
6 de oct. de 2015 · Paperback – October 6, 2015. 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.
Q: What was the genesis of About Grace?. A: When I was a kid, I had a copy of Wilson Bentley’s 1931 book, Snow Crystals.For fifty years Bentley, a Vermont farmer, caught snowflakes on a smooth black tray, transferred them to a glass slide, brushed them flat with a feather, centered them over a low-powered bulb, and took photomicrographs of them.
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.
