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Copyright © Anthony Doerr 2014
Extract from About Grace © Anthony Doerr 2005
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Cover photographs: Manuel Clauzier (San Malo); George Eastman House/Getty images (sky)
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Source ISBN: 9780008138301
Ebook Edition © April 2015 ISBN: 9780007548682
Version: 2019-06-17
For Wendy Weil
1940–2012
Saint-Malo, the brightest jewel of the Emerald Coast … The city looked picturesque and solid from the sea but as we got near the landing place we realized that the houses visible above the walls were just burnt-out shells … Of the 865 buildings within the walls, only 182 remained standing and all were damaged to some degree.
—Philip Beck
It would not have been possible for us to take power or to use it in the ways we have without the radio.
—Joseph Goebbels
Contents
Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle
Around the World in Eighty Days