About Grace

ISBN-13: 9780007146994 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 416 str.

Anthony Doerr

Opis

'About Grace' is the debut novel from Anthony Doerr.

Recenzje

''I loved this wonderful book - its strangeness, its obsessiveness, its beautiful sentences.' Monica Ali

'Doerr's sublime renditions of Winkler's attunement to the world around him turn his story into a prolonged epiphany, a blissful parable about grace. This is a formidable literary achievement that, link Winkler's snow crystals, integrates facets and dimensions into near-perfect whole.' Independent

'Doerr's gifts as a stylist are powerfully in evidence: his writing is crystalline, his attention to detail intense and evocative. That Doerr is a writer of exceptional gifts is not in question,
and there is much to admire in this novel.' Daily Telegraph

'Doerr writes wonderfully, lyrically, of the natural world, and his observations of water, snowflakes and clouds illuminate this impressive debut.' Guardian

'Exceptional first novel. I hesitate to say this book will take your breath away because it's such a cliché; but, really, I promise you, it will... I can't remember when a novel so entranced me. The only criticism I can really muster - and it is rather a limp one - is that About Grace is almost inhumanely faultless; almost, but, even then, not quite.' Evening Standard

'In careful, measured prose conjures a sense of awe both humbling and salutary. It has the bleak, lucid beauty of a day of midwinter light. At its best when describing the minute, disregarded miracles of the natural world, it lingers in the mind like one of the protagonist's eerie dreams.' Daily Mail

'About Grace is an intriguing exploration of fate and chance' The Times

O autorze

Anthony Doerr is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel
All the Light We Cannot See. He is also the author of two story collections, Memory Wall and The Shell Collector; the novel About Grace; and the memoir Four Seasons in Rome. He has won five O. Henry Prizes, the Rome Prize, the New York Public Library's Young Lions Award, the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Fiction and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Doerr lives in Boise, Idaho, with his wife and two sons.