About Grace: A Novel Reading and Discussion

Unabridged
Author: Anthony Doerr
Narrator: Anthony Doerr
Genres: Lectures, Arts
Publisher: Chautauqua Institution/ The Great Lecture Library
Date: November 2008
Length: 1 hour, 15 minutes
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Formats:
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Overview

Anthony Doerr is the author of a short story collection, The Shell Collector, and a novel, About Grace. His fiction has appeared in numerous publications, including the O. Henry Prize Stories, Paris Review, Atlantic Monthly, Zoetrope: All Story, and The Best American Short Stories. The Shell Collector was published in 2002 and won the Barnes & Noble Discover Prize, two O. Henry Prizes, the Rome Prize, and the Ohioana Book Award. It was a New York Times Notable Book and an American Library Association Book of the Year. About Grace, his first novel, was published in September of 2004 and was named a Best Book of 2004 by the Washington Post, and the Best Book of the Year by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. In his lecture he will be discussing his Novel, About Grace.