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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.
ABOUT GRACE (edición en inglés) ANTHONY DOERR. HARPERCOLLINS PUB. - 9780007146994. Escribe tu opinión. Literatura en inglés. Sinopsis de ABOUT GRACE. Beautifully written and compelling, About Grace is the brilliant debut novel from Anthony Doerr. Growing up in Alaska, young David Winkler is crippled by his dreams.
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.
6 de oct. de 2015 · About Grace: A Novel. 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.
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.
I wonder if you could explain what defamiliarization means in terms of being a writer, and how you use the concept in About Grace, and in all your work. I’m fascinated by the dynamism of language: how it changes, how it evolves, how it’s prostituted.
7 de abr. de 2016 · Beautifully written and compelling, About Grace is the brilliant debut novel from Anthony Doerr. Growing up in Alaska, young David Winkler is crippled by his dreams. At nine, he dreams a man is decapitated by a passing truck on the path outside his family’s home.
