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About Grace

Af: Anthony Doerr Engelsk Paperback

About Grace

Af: Anthony Doerr Engelsk Paperback
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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. The next day, unable to prevent it, he witnesses an exact replay of his dream in real life. The premonitions keep coming, unstoppably. He sleepwalks during them, bringing catastrophe into his reach.Then, as unstoppable as a vision, 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 Grace’s 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…
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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. The next day, unable to prevent it, he witnesses an exact replay of his dream in real life. The premonitions keep coming, unstoppably. He sleepwalks during them, bringing catastrophe into his reach.Then, as unstoppable as a vision, 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 Grace’s 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…
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 416
ISBN-13: 9780007146994
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 000714699X
Kategori: Alaska
Udg. Dato: 4 apr 2005
Længde: 34mm
Bredde: 129mm
Højde: 198mm
Forlag: HarperCollins Publishers
Oplagsdato: 4 apr 2005
Forfatter(e): Anthony Doerr
Forfatter(e) Anthony Doerr

Kategori Alaska

ISBN-13 9780007146994

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 416

Udgave

Længde 34mm

Bredde 129mm

Højde 198mm

Udg. Dato 4 apr 2005

Oplagsdato 4 apr 2005

Forlag HarperCollins Publishers

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