The exquisitely crafted stories in Anthony Doerr’s acclaimed debut collection take listeners 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—and conjures nature in both its
beautiful abundance and crushing power. Some of his characters contend with tremendous hardship; some discover unique gifts; all are united by their ultimate deference to the mysteries of the
universe outside themselves.
Editorial Reviews
Editorial Reviews
“The Shell Collector is unforgettable—not so much a book of short stories as a book of short myths.” —Elizabeth Gilbert, New York Times bestselling author
“Doerr’s prose dazzles, his sinewy sentences blending the naturalists’ unswerving gaze with the poet’s gift for metaphor.” — New York Times Book Review“
"The Shell Collector is breathtaking…Perilously beautiful.” —Boston Globe
Anthony Doerr is the author of All the Light We Cannot See, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the Carnegie Medal, the Alex Award, and
a #1 New York Times bestseller. He is also the author of the story collections Memory Wall and The Shell Collector, the
novel About Grace, and the memoir Four Seasons in Rome. He has won five 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.
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