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Product Details
Scribner, January 2011
Trade Paperback, 240 pages
ISBN-10: 1439190054
ISBN-13: 9781439190050
Description
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.
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Table of Contents"The Shell Collector is breathtaking.... Perilously beautiful."
-- Boston Globe
“Doerr’s prose dazzles, his sinewy sentences blending the naturalists’ unswerving gaze with the poet’s gift for metaphor.”
-- The New York Times Book Review
“Anthony Doerr is a gifted and fearless new writer. He is absolutely unafraid to take on the biggest themes of the human condition, always writing about heroes and their various epic journeys. The Shell Collector is unforgettable--not so much a book of short stories as a book of short myths.”
-- Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love
Elwood Reid
author of Midnight Sun and What Salmon Know
Beware, each story in this wide-ranging collection conjures whole haunted worlds. With drop-dead precision Anthony Doerr's well-wrought stories demonstrate a command far beyond his years. The Shell Collector is nothing less than a monstrously assured debut.
Rick Bass
author of Where the Sea Used to Be
Anthony Doerr is a wonderful new writer. His stories reach deep and mine the forgotten places, as well as the never-before-discovered. These stories don't just observe beauty, they help create it.
Idaho Statesman, December 15, 2010
...loved one this holiday season. Idaho Center for the Book announces two new board members Christine Holbert and Anthony Doerr will join the board. Holbert, founder and publisher of Lost Horse Press, earned her publishing degree from Eastern ...
Idaho Statesman, December 15, 2010
...Idaho Center for the Book announces two new board members Christine Holbert and Anthony Doerr will join the board. Holbert, founder and publisher of Lost Horse Press, earned her publishing degree from Eastern Washington University in 1998. ...
Anthony Doerr's Books
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Memory WallWinner of the 2010 Story Prize, Memory Wall is the acclaimed collection of stories from Anthony Doerr.Read More
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About GraceWhen Anthony Doerr's The Shell Collector was published in 2002, the Los Angeles Times called his stories "as close to faultless as any writer -- young...Read More -
Four Seasons in RomeAnthony Doerr has received many awards -- from the New York Public Library, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the American Library Association....Read More
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