· About Grace is the first novel from Boise, Idaho based author, Anthony Doerr. He previously published a collection of short stories, The Shell Collector, which were both moving and gorgeous. One of the qualities of the stories contained in The Shell Collector, i.e., each story's deep connection to the natural world in which it takes place, actually becomes one of the chief weaknesses /5. Q: What was the genesis of About Grace?. A: When I was a kid, I had a copy of Wilson Bentley’s book, Snow www.doorway.ru 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. Inspired by the turn-of-the-century snowflake images taken by Wilson A. Bentley, Anthony’s debut novel is about a hydrologist named David Winkler who occasionally dreams events that later come true. When he has a dream that foretells the death of his own daughter, Grace, he flees thousands of miles from family and home in the desperate hope of contravening fate.
About Grace Summary Study Guide. Anthony Doerr. This Study Guide consists of approximately 39 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of About Grace. Print Word PDF. This section contains words. Anthony Doerr. Scribner, $30 (p) ISBN Pulitzer winner Doerr (All the Light We Cannot See) returns with a deeply affecting epic of a long-lost book from ancient Greece. Anthony Doerr is the author of five books, The Shell Collector, About Grace, Memory Wall, Four Seasons in Rome and All the Light We Cannot See. His new novel, Cloud Cuckoo Land, will be published in September, Doerr's fiction has won five O. Henry Prizes and won a number of prizes including the Pulitzer Prize and the Carnegie Medal.
About Grace possesses a seductive symbolic intensity, and abounds with gorgeous descriptions and metaphors (“The sea teething” on a coral reef; “the million distant candles of the stars”). David Winkler, the year-old protagonist of Anthony Doerr's debut novel, About Grace, is a dreamer but not, alas, of the carefree, California kind. Instead Winkler is a modern-day Cassandra who dreams about future events -- some momentous, some trivial -- and when he tries to warn people, he meets, for the most part, with incredulity and skepticism. Inspired by the turn-of-the-century snowflake images taken by Wilson A. Bentley, Anthony’s debut novel is about a hydrologist named David Winkler who occasionally dreams events that later come true. When he has a dream that foretells the death of his own daughter, Grace, he flees thousands of miles from family and home in the desperate hope of contravening fate.
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