The Shell Collector: Stories
by:
Anthony Doerr (author)
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,...
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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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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781439190050 (1439190054)
ASIN: 1439190054
Publish date: January 4th 2011
Publisher: Scribner
Pages no: 240
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.
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