Anthony Doerr ABOUT GRACE Signed First Edition
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Anthony Doerr ABOUT GRACE Signed First Edition
First UK edition, first print hardback of ABOUT GRACE by Anthony Doerr and published by Fourth Estate/ Harper Collins Publisher Ltd., London in 2005. Signed and inscribed by Anthony Doerr on title page.The book is in very good condition (Clean bright purple cloth boards with blue lettering on spine) with only minor shelf wear to the dust jacket, which is not price clipped. Internally, the pages are clean and tight and there are no tears and no other inscriptions.
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 familys home. The next day, unable to prevent it, he witnesses an exact replay of his dream in real life. The shock of his premonition sobers him, makes him careful, studious, tentative. Relentlessly, the premonitions keep coming. He sleepwalks during them, bringing catastrophe into his reach. He makes his career as a hydrologist, a weatherman, and gives himself to life sparingly.
But, he falls in love, at the supermarket (exactly as he already dreamed) with Sandy. They flee south, landing in Ohio, where their daughter Grace is born. And then the visions of Graces death begin for Winkler, as their waterside home is inundated. Plagued by the same horrific images of Grace drowning, when the floods come, he cannot face his destiny and flees. He beaches on a remote Caribbean island, where he works as a handyman, chipping away at his doubts and hopes, never knowing whether Grace survived the flood or met the doom he foretold. After two decades, he musters the strength to find out."
'I loved this wonderful book its strangeness, its obsessiveness, its beautiful sentences.' Monica Ali
402 pages.
ISBN: 0 00 714697 3
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