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The Shell Collector

Anthony Doerr

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The Shell Collector

by Anthony Doerr
The Shell Collector
The Shell Collector

Diverse tales of human condition and nature's power.

If you're drawn to stories that seamlessly blend human emotion with the awe-inspiring intricacies of nature, "The Shell Collector" is a must-read for you. Anthony Doerr's prose will transport you across continents and through lives, each tale pulsing with its own unique heartbeat yet united by the overarching theme of awe toward the natural world. It's a collection that promises to leave you both enchanted and contemplatively moved.

  • New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award (2003)
  • Ohioana Book Award for Fiction (2003)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

The Shell Collector

by Anthony Doerr
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ISBN: 9781439190050
Author: Anthony Doerr
Publisher: Scribner
Date of Publication: 2021-10-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Literary Fiction, Contemporary
Goodreads rating: 3.98
(rated by 18401 readers)

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.
 

Diverse tales of human condition and nature's power.

If you're drawn to stories that seamlessly blend human emotion with the awe-inspiring intricacies of nature, "The Shell Collector" is a must-read for you. Anthony Doerr's prose will transport you across continents and through lives, each tale pulsing with its own unique heartbeat yet united by the overarching theme of awe toward the natural world. It's a collection that promises to leave you both enchanted and contemplatively moved.

  • New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award (2003)
  • Ohioana Book Award for Fiction (2003)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

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