Ordinary Grace: A Novel (Signed & Inscribed)

Krueger, William Kent

ISBN 10: 1451645821 / ISBN 13: 9781451645828

Published by Atria Books, New York New York, 2013

About this Item

Unread book is tight, clean and square with a complete number line including "1". There is pushing to the head and tail of the spine otherwise a lovely book with sharp corners. It has received many honors including The Midwest Booksellers Choice Award, the Dilys, the Squid, and the 2014 Edgar Award, as well. It has also won the Anthony Award for best mystery and the Macavity Award for best mystery. All these awards for 2014. The mylar protected DJ is price-intact ($24.99) and is lovely as well. It was Signed at the 2015 Austin Artworks Festival and inscribed to me by Mr. Krueger "Best Wishes Jim".

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Ordinary Grace: A Novel (Signed & Inscribed)
• Publisher: Atria Books, New York New York
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1451645821
• ISBN 13: 9781451645828
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed & Inscribed By Author

About this title

Synopsis

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
WINNER OF THE 2014 EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL
WINNER OF THE 2014 DILYS AWARD
A SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF 2013

“That was it. That was all of it. A grace so ordinary there was no reason at all to remember it. Yet I have never across the forty years since it was spoken forgotten a single word.”

New Bremen, Minnesota, 1961. The Twins were playing their debut season, ice-cold root beers were selling out at the soda counter of Halderson’s Drugstore, and Hot Stuff comic books were a mainstay on every barbershop magazine rack. It was a time of innocence and hope for a country with a new, young president. But for thirteen-year-old Frank Drum it was a grim summer in which death visited frequently and assumed many forms. Accident. Nature. Suicide. Murder.

Frank begins the season preoccupied with the concerns of any teenage boy, but when tragedy unexpectedly strikes his family—which includes his Methodist minister father; his passionate, artistic mother; Juilliard-bound older sister; and wise-beyond-his-years kid brother—he finds himself thrust into an adult world full of secrets, lies, adultery, and betrayal, suddenly called upon to demonstrate a maturity and gumption beyond his years.

Told from Frank’s perspective forty years after that fateful summer, Ordinary Grace is a brilliantly moving account of a boy standing at the door of his young manhood, trying to understand a world that seems to be falling apart around him. It is an unforgettable novel about discovering the terrible price of wisdom and the enduring grace of God.

About the Author

William Kent Krueger is the award-winning author of the New York Times bestselling Ordinary Grace, winner of the Edgar Award for best novel, as well as eighteen Cork O’Connor novels, including Desolation Mountain and Sulfur Springs. He lives in the Twin Cities with his family. Visit his website at WilliamKentKrueger.com.