G Whiz - All the Light We Cannot See--101 Amazing Facts You Didnt Know

All the Light We Cannot See 101 Amazing Facts

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Level one easy

1. All the Light We Cannot See is a novel written by award winning Anthony Doerr. The book is stunningly ambitious and beautiful and is written about a French girl who is blind and a German boy. Their paths collide in France when they try to survive the devastations of World War II.
2. The book is in hardcover and has 544 pages.
3. The book is expected to be published on 6th of May 2014 by Scribner. It was initially published on 15th of April 2014.
4. All the Light We Cannot see is listed under the genre, literature and fiction and non-fiction.
5. Anthony's novel - All the Light We Cannot See was picked as the new Books-A-Million President's Pick and is available for purchase at any Books, A-Million location or online.
6. The author brings to light the ways, against all odds, how people try to be good to one another. All the Light We Cannot See is Anthony's most ambitious and dazzling work.
7. The story is based on World War II and relates a tale about what lies beneath the visible world. Anthony does an act of extraction with dubbing more recent history.
8. Anthony Doerr in his book narrates the story around a gem of 133 carats. The gem is called the Sea of Flames, a staggering beauty shadowed by the owner's immorality and a curse. Most handlers have thrown it back to the ocean.
9. Anthony Doerr was born in 1973 on 27th of October at Cleveland, Ohio.
10. Doerr 's interest in writing started when he was a teenager.
11. Doerr completed his BA in History in 1995 at Bowdoin College. When he was in mid-twenties, he was writing and his articles were published in magazines.
12. Doerr received his MFA in writing in 1999 from the Bowling Green State University.
13. Anthony Doerr lives with his wife and two sons at Boise, Idaho.
14. Anthony Doerr and his wife have been blessed with twins.
15. Doerr was considered the 'writer in residence' for the state of Idaho from 2007 to 2010.
16. The author clarifies that to his knowledge he is not a relative of late writer Harriet Doerr.
17. Anthony was raised in nearby Novelty, Ohio.
18. The author's short stories have appeared in many publications including The Paris Review, The Atlantic Monthly and others.
19. Anthony has received a number of awards and prizes including 2 Pushcart Prizes, a Guggenheim Fellowship and the National Magazine Award for Fiction.
20. Anthony Doerr reveals his love for science by exploring the human connection to the natural world and this is truly depicted in his award winning first book of short stories.
21. Alice Evans of Portland Oregonian quotes the book as exquisite and nothing short of brilliant.
22. Janet Maslin of The New York Times states that Doerr takes the reader through the trials Werner had to go through at school. The book does not consider European's wartime experiences in a novel way, but he has focused more on the choices made by the characters both living and dead.
23. Doerr is an amazing writer quotes Mary Ann Gwinn of Seattle Times. He has written a novel about a blind French girl and German boy in France and the efforts for survival during war era.
24. Booklist rates the book, All the Light We Cannot See as a novel which comes alive to the reader and keeps the reader engrossed until you come to the last page.
25. Vanity Fair quotes that Anthony in this book has used his language skills well taking the book to unimaginable limits.
26. Good Housekeeping states the whole book is enjoyable.
27. The Oprah Magazine commented that Doerr's style is unhurried and the readers will enjoy the characters.
28. Jane Ciabattari of BBC dubbed the book as well structured and is a work of art which needs to be preserved.
29. Mary Pols of People mentioned that the story revolves around a radio announcement, a diamond with a curse and a soldier's thoughts. The readers will get emotional and will cast the story in their minds.
30. Anthony Doerr in an interview reveals that he hates peanut butter. He had watched his mother making and remembered her pouring the oil into her Cuisinart and he had always hated the sound.
31. Doerr also revealed that he is a horrible driver on snow and gets anxious.
32. Doerr said that they have the best dog that ever lived and her name is Lucy.
33. Anthony's father owns a small printing business and his mother teaches Ecology. He has lived in Italy as well.
34. Doerr states that if writers regard MFA programme as an opportunity to establish a functional discipline rather than training for career placement it would help them tremendously.
35. Doerr before and after college had worked and travelled to Alaska, Kenya and a few other countries on Sheep ranches, as a cook and at a fish packaging plant.
36. Anthony met his wife, Shauna Eastman at Bowdoin and when she returned to Boise to join Hewlett Packard Corporation, he followed her and eventually they got married.
37. Doerr says Boise is his favorite community and it has got something to do with the place. He says in Boise he has friends and is happily married which makes him more fond of the place where he lives.

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Level two medium

1. Doerr has used language which is startlingly fresh and used sentences with short bursts of sensory information. The story is similar to other novels written during World War II and love and greed plays a key role in this tale as well.
2. Anthony Doerr has used his skills to shorten and reduce passages in creating metaphorical pivot points. In one chapter, Marie-Laure's father builds a scale model of the Brittany town for her. The reason being if she was left behind the model will show her the way to safety.
3. Anthony has written the book so well that the readers become misty eyed when reading certain chapters. The story is unsentimental and not surprising as Doerr's two kids were also part of the devastation of World War II. The children were ordinary kids, unlike martyred emblems like Anne Frank or the British evacuees of the bombed city of Benares. The kids had nothing to do with the conflict.