The Shell Collector by Anthony Doerr

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The "perilously beautiful" (Boston Globe) first story collection by the author of the acclaimed Pulitzer Prize-winning #1 New York Times bestseller All The Light We Cannot See and Cloud Cuckoo Land. The exquisitely crafted stories in Anthony Doerr's debut collection take readers from the African Coast to the pine forests of Montana to the damp moors of Lapland, charting a vast physical and emotional landscape. Doerr explores the human condition in all its varieties—metamorphosis, grief, fractured relationships, and slowly mending hearts—conjuring nature in both its beautiful abundance and crushing power. Some of the characters in these stories contend with hardships, some discover unique gifts, all are united by their ultimate deference to the ravishing universe outside themselves.

  • Product Features

    • Suggested age range- Adult
    • Format- Paperback
    • Product dimensions- 5.5" W x 8.4" H x 0.8" D
    • Genre- Fiction
    • Publisher- Scribner, Publication date- 01-04-2011
    • Page count- 219
    • ISBN- 9781439190050

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Crimson Alex 2
2 years ago

Another hit!

I am in the process of reading the entire collection of Doerr's after reading All the Light you Cannot See and Cloud Cuckoo Land and Memory Wall. I don't read short stories, but because Doerr is the author, I am willing to read anything he writes! This collection is deceptively deep. On the surface, it seems that the themes and the stories themselves are very simple but there are a lot of deeper truths embedded within the stories. Some were more enjoyable than others but overall a very good collection of stories that anyone would enjoy!!

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