Anthony Doerr
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Description
"From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, a stunningly ambitious and beautiful novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie Laure lives with her father in Paris within walking distance of the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of the locks (there are thousands of locks in the museum). When she is six,...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
The "perilously beautiful" ("Boston Globe") first story collection by the author of the acclaimed #1 "New York Times" bestseller "All The Light We Cannot See." The exquisitely crafted stories in Anthony Doerr's debut collection take readers from the African Coast to the pine forests of Montana to the damp moors of Lapland, charting a vast physical and emotional landscape. Doerr explores the human condition in all its varieties--metamorphosis, grief,...