The Shell Collector
219 pages
|Published: 1 Jan 2001
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This edition
ISBN: 9780142002964
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Books
Publication date: 15 February 2003
Description
The exquisitely crafted stories in Anthony Doerr's acclaimed 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-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.
