Anthony Doerr, Author . Scribner $23 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7432-1274-8
The natural world exerts a powerful, brooding presence in this first collection; it's almost as much a main character as any of the individuals the 26-year-old Doerr records. Nature, in these eight stories, is mysterious and deadly, a wonder of...
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Anthony Doerr, Author . Scribner $25 (416p) ISBN 978-0-7432-6182-1
The majesty of nature, the meaning of courage, the redemptive power of love and the pathos of isolation—all are gracefully explored in Doerr's story of the price paid for a gift. So why does so little seem to happen in this beautiful,...
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Anthony Doerr, Author . Scribner $24 (243p) ISBN 978-1-4391-8280-2
In multiple O. Henry Prize–winner Doerr's latest (after Four Seasons in Rome
), the presence and persistence of memory thematically binds stories set apart by vast distances of time and space. The title story finds a South African woman...
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Anthony Doerr. Scribner, $27 (544p) ISBN 978-1-4767-4658-6
In 1944, the U.S. Air Force bombed the Nazi-occupied French coastal town of St. Malo. Doerr (Memory Wall) starts his story just before the bombing, then goes back to 1934 to describe two childhoods: those of Werner and Marie-Laure. We meet Werner as
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Anthony Doerr. Scribner, $30 (656p) ISBN 978-1-982168-43-8
Pulitzer winner Doerr (All the Light We Cannot See) returns with a deeply affecting epic of a long-lost book from ancient Greece. In the mid-22nd century, Konstance, 14, copies an English translation of Cloud Cuckoo Land by Antonius Diogenes with...
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Anthony Doerr, read by Zach Appelman. Simon & Schuster Audio, , unabridged, 13 CDs, 16 hrs., $39.99 ISBN 978-1-4423-7542-0
Broadway actor Appelman delivers a moving performance in the audio edition of Doerr’s beautiful WWII novel. The story shifts back and forth in time, and alternates between the perspectives of two protagonists, Marie-Laure—a blind French girl whose...
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Anthony Doerr, read by the author. S&S Audio, unabridged, 5 CDs, 6 hrs., $29.99 ISBN 978-1-4423-9497-1
Doerr is not an accomplished narrator: he has a narrow vocal range, drops his voice at the ends of sentences, and articulates words so carefully as to undermine the conversational flow of his fine writing. But all that said, the audio edition of...
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Edited by Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman. Avid Reader, $27 (288p) ISBN 978-1-5011-9040-7
Husband and wife Chabon (Moonglow) and Waldman (A Really Good Day) gather dozens of prominent writers to commemorate the ACLU’s centennial with powerful, inspiring essays on the legal organization’s milestone cases. Addressing City of Chicago v....
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