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About Grace
- Narrated by: George Newburn
- Length: 12 hrs and 54 mins
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Publisher's Summary
About Grace is the brilliant debut audiobook 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....
Critic Reviews
"I loved this wonderful book - its strangeness, its obsessiveness, its beautiful sentences." (Monica Ali)
"Doerr's sublime renditions of Winkler's attonement 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)
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- Louise J. Leyden
- 23-06-2019
Long, winding story .
this is a long winded novel. at times it was so glum that I wonderf why the author qeotw and wrote about sadness. it's very descriptive and could have been edited much more.
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- Anonymous User
- 15-07-2023
Another amazing Anthony Doerr!
Beautiful book. The characters are so clear to me and the landscape’s sometimes so real I could touch or smell them. Sometimes tuned out a bit in the science parts which I couldn’t always quite follow. But what a story - and an interesting prelude to Cloud Cuckoo Land and it’s time warps.
Fab narration too!
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- Anonymous User
- 15-06-2023
I kept hoping things
I rarely dislike a character as much as this man. His ineffectiveness was so frustrating. I kept hoping he would get his act together so I hung in there - shouldn’t have wasted my time
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