EAN: 9780007146994

ANTHONY DOERR - GEBRAUCHT ABOUT GRACE - PREIS V...

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...

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