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'I loved this wonderful book - its strangeness, its obsessiveness, its beautiful sentences.' Monica Ali 'Doerr's sublime renditions of Winkler's attunement to the world around him turn his story into a prolonged epiphany, a blissful parable about grace. This is a formidable literary achievement that, link Winkler's snow crystals, integrates facets and dimensions into near-perfect whole.' Peter Carty, Independent 'Doerr's gifts as a stylist are powerfully in evidence: his writing is crystalline, his attention to detail intense and evocative. That Doerr is a writer of exceptional gifts is not in question, and there is much to admire in this novel.' Claire Messud, Daily Telegraph 'Doerr writes wonderfully, lyrically, of the natural world, and his observations of water, snowflakes and clouds illuminate this impressive debut.' Rachel Hore, Guardian 'Exceptional first novel. I hesitate to say this book will take your breath away because it's such a cliche; but, really, I promise you, it will... I can't remember when a novel so entranced me. The only criticism I can really muster - and it is rather a limp one - is that About Grace is almost inhumanely faultless; almost, but, even then, not quite.' Melanie McGrath, Evening Standard 'In careful, measured prose conjures a sense of awe both humbling and salutary. It has the bleak, lucid beauty of a day of midwinter light. At its best when describing the minute, disregarded miracles of the natural world, it lingers in the mind like one of the protagonist's eerie dreams.' Ned Denny, Daily Mail Praise for The Shell Collector: 'An extraordinary debut collection, filled with the vastness of the natural world pressing against human insignificance.' Guardian 'A show-stopping debut, as close to faultless as any writer could wish for' Los Angeles Times 'A fine collection! Doerr's prose dazzles from the very beginning.' New York Times 'Perilously beautiful, precise and elegant! Doerr can describe a woman running through a Tanzanian forest with the careful specificity of a scientist and the awe of a poet; he can give you a sunrise with the glory-bound colours of apricot and gold, and two pages later you're meeting a young woman in Idaho, who falls in love with the metal-eater at the country fair! Breathtaking.' Boston Globe 'An impressive first collection! Doerr's stories evoke the ecstatic feeling that comes from loving something or someone very much.' TLS 'Loss, estrangement and distance are the collection's keynotes. Doerr frames and executes these stories with seemingly effortless panache.' Economist

'I loved this wonderful book -- its strangeness, its obsessiveness, its beautiful sentences.' Monica Ali 'Doerr's sublime renditions of Winkler's attunement to the world around him turn his story into a prolonged epiphany, a blissful parable about grace. This is a formidable literary achievement that, link Winkler's snow crystals, integrates facets and dimensions into near-perfect whole.' Independent 'Doerr's gifts as a stylist are powerfully in evidence: his writing is crystalline, his attention to detail intense and evocative. That Doerr is a writer of exceptional gifts is not in question, and there is much to admire in this novel.' Daily Telegraph 'Doerr writes wonderfully, lyrically, of the natural world, and his observations of water, snowflakes and clouds illuminate this impressive debut.' Guardian 'Exceptional first novel. I hesitate to say this book will take your breath away because it's such a cliche; but, really, I promise you, it will! I can't remember when a novel so entranced me. The only criticism I can really muster -- and it is rather a limp one -- is that About Grace is almost inhumanely faultless; almost, but, even then, not quite.' Evening Standard 'In careful, measured prose conjures a sense of awe both humbling and salutary. It has the bleak, lucid beauty of a day of midwinter light. At its best when describing the minute, disregarded miracles of the natural world, it lingers in the mind like one of the protagonist's eerie dreams.' Daily Mail Praise for The Shell Collector: 'An extraordinary debut collection, filled with the vastness of the natural world pressing against human insignificance.' Guardian 'A show-stopping debut, as close to faultless as any writer could wish for' Los Angeles Times 'A fine collection! Doerr's prose dazzles from the very beginning.' New York Times 'Perilously beautiful, precise and elegant! Doerr can describe a woman running through a Tanzanian forest with the careful specificity of a scientist and the awe of a poet; he can give you a sunrise with the glory-bound colours of apricot and gold, and two pages later you're meeting a young woman in Idaho, who falls in love with the metal-eater at the country fair! Breathtaking.' Boston Globe 'An impressive first collection! Doerr's stories evoke the ecstatic feeling that comes from loving something or someone very much.' TLS 'Loss, estrangement and distance are the collection's keynotes. Doerr frames and executes these stories with seemingly effortless panache.' Economist

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Anthony Doerr is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel All the Light We Cannot See, currently in development as a Netflix limited series. He is also the author of two short story collections, Memory Wall and The Shell Collector; the novel About Grace; and the memoir Four Seasons in Rome, all published by 4th Estate. He has won five O. Henry Prizes, the Rome Prize, the New York Public Library's Young Lions Award, the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Fiction, a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Story Prize. Doerr lives in Boise, Idaho, with his wife and two sons.

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