About Grace [SIGNED Advance Reader Copy]

Doerr, Anthony

ISBN 10: 0743261828 / ISBN 13: 9780743261821

Published by Scribner, New York, 2004

About this Item

Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 416 pages; [SIGNED] 2004 Alfred A. Knopf. Advance Reader Copy. Pre-publication 1st printing. Signed by Doerr on the title page. Feels and appears unread. Trace shelf evidence to cover edges and light general toning as usually seen in this ARC. VG++ to NF.

Seller Inventory # 56677

Bibliographic Details

• Title: About Grace [SIGNED Advance Reader Copy]
• Publisher: Scribner, New York
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0743261828
• ISBN 13: 9780743261821
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: First Edition; First Printing.
• Condition: Very Good+
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket As Issued
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature
  • Signed by Author
  • Modern 1st editions

About this title

Synopsis

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, learning about human frailty and the importance of everyday miracles along the way. By the author of The Shell Collector. A first novel. 75,000 first printing.

About the Author

Anthony Doerr is the author of a collection of short stories, The Shell Collector, the novel About Grace, and a memoir titled Four Seasons in Rome.  His books have been a New York Times Notable Book, an American Library Association Book of the Year, a "Book of the Year" in the Washington Post, and he has won the Barnes & Noble Discover Prize, the Rome Prize, the Hodder Fellowship from Princeton, and shared the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award.  His book reviews have appeared in the New York Times and Der Spiegel, and he writes the “On Science” column for the Boston Globe.  Doerr is the Writer-in-Residence for the state of Idaho.