All the Light We Cannot See Contributor(s): Doerr, Anthony (Author) |
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ISBN: 1476746583 ISBN-13: 9781476746586 Publisher: Scribner Book Company
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Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Historical - World War Ii - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | War & Military |
Dewey: FIC |
LCCN: 2013034107 |
Lexile Measure: 880(Not Available) |
Physical Information: 1.7" H x 6.4" W x 9.25" L (1.60 lbs) 544 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 1940's - Cultural Region - French - Topical - Physically Challenged |
Features: Dust Cover, Ikids, Price on Product, Price on Product - Canadian |
Awards: ALA Notable Books, Winner, Fiction, 2015 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence, Winner, Fiction, 2015 Alex Awards, Winner, Adult/For Young Adults, 2015 Colorado Blue Spruce Award, Nominee, Young Adult, 2016 Idaho Library Association Book Award, Winner, Outstanding Contribution, 2014 National Book Awards, Finalist, Fiction, 2014 Pulitzer Prize, Winner, Fiction, 2015 Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award, Winner, Regional Book, 2015 Indies Choice Book Awards, Winner, Fiction, 2015 Dayton Literary Peace Prize, Runner-Up, Fiction, 2015 |
Review Citations: Library Journal Prepub Alert 12/01/2013 pg. 68 Library Journal 02/01/2014 pg. 62 Publishers Weekly 02/17/2014 Kirkus Reviews 03/15/2014 Booklist 04/15/2014 pg. 23 People Weekly 05/12/2014 pg. 62 Entertainment Weekly 05/09/2014 pg. 12 New York Times Book Review 05/11/2014 pg. 16 Shelf Awareness 05/06/2014 Entertainment Weekly 05/23/2014 pg. 71 New York Times Book Review 05/18/2014 pg. 30 New Yorker (The) 06/23/2014 pg. 85 Voice of Youth Advocates 10/01/2014 - Recommended - Hard To Beat Kirkus Best Fiction 11/15/2014 pg. 15 NY Times Notable Bks of Year 12/07/2014 pg. 26 LJ Best Books of Year 12/01/2014 pg. 29 SLJ Best Adult Bks 4 Teens 12/01/2014 pg. 31 Shelf Awareness 12/12/2014 Christian Century 12/10/2014 pg. 31 Entertainment Weekly 12/12/2014 pg. 72 New York Times Book Review 12/14/2014 pg. 10 People Weekly 12/22/2014 pg. 46 Booklist Editors Choice/Adult 01/01/2015 pg. 10 Library Journal 12/01/2013 |
Accelerated Reader Info |
Quiz #: 171859 Reading Level: 6.2 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 21.0 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: *Winner of the Pulitzer Prize* A New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book* A National Book Award finalist * From Anthony Doerr, the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning author of Cloud Cuckoo Land, the beautiful, stunningly ambitious instant New York Times bestseller 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 near the Museum of Natural History, where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure's reclusive great-uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum's most valuable and dangerous jewel. In a mining town in Germany, the orphan Werner grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments, a talent that wins him a place at a brutal academy for Hitler Youth, then a special assignment to track the resistance. More and more aware of the human cost of his intelligence, Werner travels through the heart of the war and, finally, into Saint-Malo, where his story and Marie-Laure's converge. Doerr's "stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors" (San Francisco Chronicle) are dazzling. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, he illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another. Ten years in the writing, a National Book Award finalist, All the Light We Cannot See is a magnificent, deeply moving novel from a writer "whose sentences never fail to thrill" (Los Angeles Times). |
Contributor Bio(s): Doerr, Anthony: - Anthony Doerr is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel All the Light We Cannot See. He is also the author of two story collections Memory Wall and The Shell Collector, the novel About Grace, and the memoir Four Seasons in Rome. He has won four O. Henry Prizes, the Rome Prize, the New York Public Library's Young Lions Award, the National Magazine Award for fiction, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Story Prize. Doerr lives in Boise, Idaho, with his wife and two sons. |
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