About Grace (Inscribed First Edition, First Printing)

Doerr, Anthony

ISBN 10: 0743261828 / ISBN 13: 9780743261821

Published by Scribner (Scribners, Scribner's), 2004

About this Item

Inscribed First Edition, First Printing of the first novel by Anthony Doerr. Signed and dated by Anthony Doerr on the title page, additionally inscribed by Doerr to a previous owner on the same page. 402 pages. No sign of previous use.

Seller Inventory # 016949

Bibliographic Details

• Title: About Grace (Inscribed First Edition, First Printing)
• Publisher: Scribner (Scribners, Scribner's)
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0743261828
• ISBN 13: 9780743261821
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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.