Anthony Doerr

About Grace

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...

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...

Jazyk slovenský
Vydavateľ Harper Collins Publishers
Rok vydania 2005
Počet strán 406
Typ viazania Paperback
Hmotnosť (g) 300 g
Rozmery (š-v-h) 216x160
EAN 9780007146994
Dodacia doba nedostupné


Dalšie obľúbené tituly z kategórie:


Osobná anamnéza (Koľko vydrží ľudské srdce?)
-9%
Jozef Ján Matejka
Dodacia doba
online cena - Skladom - 1 pracovný deň
11,50 €
10,47 €
Tvorivý akt - Spôsob bytia
-9%
Rick Rubin
Dodacia doba
online cena - Skladom - 1 pracovný deň
22,90 €
20,84 €
Unravel Me
Tahereh Mafi
Dodacia doba
online cena - Skladom - 1 pracovný deň
12,95 €
Malí detektívi – Kto ukradol papagája?
-9%
Stanislav V. Solovinský
Dodacia doba
online cena - Skladom - 1 pracovný deň
8,99 €
8,19 €
Dráčik, nehnevaj sa!
-9%
Robert Starling
Dodacia doba
online cena - Skladom - 1 pracovný deň
9,90 €
9,01 €
Diktáty pre 2.triedu ZŠ (nov.vyd.)
-9%
Dodacia doba
online cena - Skladom - 1 pracovný deň
4,50 €
4,10 €
Múdre hlavičky - Minnie
Dodacia doba
online cena - Skladom - 1 pracovný deň
3,60 €
Mini akadémia ( balíček ) - úroveň B  (pre deti od 3 rokov)
-9%
kol.
Dodacia doba
online cena - Skladom - 1 pracovný deň
16,70 €
15,20 €