About Grace
Subtitle: a novel
By: Anthony Doerr.
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 402
Subjects: Separation (Psychology) -- Fiction.; Fathers and daughters -- Fiction.; Runaway husbands -- Fiction.; Precognition -- Fiction.; Dreams -- Fiction.; Caribbean Area -- Fiction.; Alaska -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "David Winkler begins life in Anchorage, Alaska, a quiet boy drawn to the volatility of weather and obsessed with snow. Sometimes he sees things before they happen - a man carrying a hatbox will be hit by a bus; Winkler will fall in love with a woman in a supermarket. When David dreams that his infant daughter will drown in a flood as he tries to save her, he comes undone. He travels thousands of miles, fleeing family, home, and the future itself, to deny the dream." "On a Caribbean island, destitute, alone, and unsure if his child has survived or his wife can forgive him, David is sheltered by a couple with a daughter of their own. Ultimately it is she who will pull him back into the world, to search for the people he left behind."--BOOK JACKET.