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All the Light We Cannot See
by Doerr, Anthony
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1476746583
- ISBN 13
- 9781476746586
- Seller
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La Mesa, California, United States
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About This Item
New York, New York: Scribner, 2014. First Edition Later Printing 5th or later Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Pulitzer-prize winning novel that will restore your faith in humanity, illuminating how, "against all odds, people try to be good to one another." Set in WWII-era occupied Paris & Germany, basis for the 2023 Netflix series. Orig. published in 2014, this is a much later (47th) printing of that First Edition, in 531 pages. Hardcover 8vo has a light blue-gray cloth-covered spine lettered in darker blue, with darker blue paper covered boards. Condition is Near Fine in a Fine, unclipped DJ: just slight less crisp than Brand New with a hint of bumping to head of spine.! Completely clean & bright, binding strong & straight, pages white & unmarked. Colorful DJ protected in new clear mylar cover free! Our photos depict the exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same day shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Weekdays (Pacific time); later orders, Weekends, & holidays ship very next business day.
Synopsis
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, she goes blind, and her father builds her a model of their neighborhood, every house, every manhole, so she can memorize it with her fingers and navigate the real streets with her feet and cane. When the Germans occupy Paris, father and daughter flee to Saint-Malo on the Brittany coast, where Marie-LaureâÈçs agoraphobic great uncle lives in a tall, narrow house by the sea wall. In another world in Germany, an orphan boy, Werner, grows up with his younger sister, Jutta, both enchanted by a crude radio Werner finds. He becomes a master at building and fixing radios, a talent that wins him a place at an elite and brutal military academy and, ultimately, makes him a highly specialized tracker of the Resistance. Werner travels through the heart of Hitler Youth to the far-flung outskirts of Russia, and finally into Saint-Malo, where his path converges with Marie-Laure. DoerrâÈçs gorgeous combination of soaring imagination with observation is electric. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, Doerr illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another. Ten years in the writing, All the Light We Cannot See is his most ambitious and dazzling work.
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Reviews
On Apr 6 2018, a reader said:
A book so well written that you slow your pace to savour the words.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Gargoyle Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 022916
- Title
- All the Light We Cannot See
- Author
- Doerr, Anthony
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition Later Printing 5th or later Printing
- ISBN 10
- 1476746583
- ISBN 13
- 9781476746586
- Publisher
- Scribner
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York
- Date Published
- 2014
- Keywords
- Paris France French Germany girls boys romance survival blind war WWII nazi occupation
- Bookseller catalogs
- Film/Television; Fiction / Historical;
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