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About Grace a novel

Possessing an unsettling ability to predict random future events, Anchorage resident David Winkler foresees his infant daughter's drowning death and travels thousands of miles to Ohio and the Caribbean to prevent the tragedy.

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Main Author: Doerr, Anthony, 1973- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2015.
Edition:First Scribner trade paperback edition.
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Fathers and daughters > Fiction.
Dreams > Fiction.
Precognition > Fiction.
Runaway husbands > Fiction.
Separation (Psychology) > Fiction.
Caribbean Area > Fiction.
Alaska > Fiction.
Psychological fiction > Alaska.
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Summary:Possessing an unsettling ability to predict random future events, Anchorage resident David Winkler foresees his infant daughter's drowning death and travels thousands of miles to Ohio and the Caribbean to prevent the tragedy.
Physical Description:402 pages, [19 unnumbered pages] ; 20 cm
ISBN:9781476789019
1476789010
Author Notes:Anthony Doerr was born on October 27, 1973 in Cleveland, Ohio. He is the author of The Shell Collector, About Grace, Four Seasons in Rome, Memory Wall, and All the Light We Cannot See. His fiction has won four O. Henry Prizes and has been anthologized in several anthologies. He has won the Barnes and Noble Discover Prize, the Rome Prize, the New York Public Library's Young Lions Award, the National Magazine Award for Fiction, three Pushcart Prizes, two Pacific Northwest Book Award, three Ohioana Book Awards, the 2010 Story Prize, which is considered the most prestigious prize in the U.S. for a collection of short stories, and the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award, which is the largest prize in the world for a single short story. His novel, All the Light We Cannot See, won the Adult Fiction Award for the Indies Choice Book Awards in 2015, the International Book of the Year at the ABIA Awards and the Pulitzer Prizes for Fiction in 2015. Anthony Doerr also won the 2015 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction for this same title.

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