The Shell Collector
by:
Anthony Doerr (author)
Format: kindle
ISBN:
9780007392469
Publish date: December 21st 2011
Publisher: Flamingo
Pages no: 228
Edition language: English
I don't know what I was expecting from this book, but I wasn't expecting to like it as much as I did. I am usually wary of literary fiction that dwells so much on nature; sometimes these stories feel like they abandon story and human resonances for their description and exultation in unqualified nat...
A collection of stories about people vs time, how we cocoon ourselves in certain seasons and come alive in others. Favorites were The Hunter's Wife and So Many Chances. The latter made me want to read more stories about summer people vs townies.