The Shell Collector: Stories [Paperback]

The perilously beautiful (Boston Globe) first story collection by the author of the acclaimed Pulitzer Prize-winning #1New York TimesbestsellerAll The Light We Cannot See.

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.Contents

The Shell Collector

The Hunter's Wife

So Many Chances

For a Long Time

This Was Griselda's Story

July Fourth

The Caretaker

A Tangle by the Rapid River

Mkondo The Shell Collectoris 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 ofEat, Pray, Love