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ISBN-10: 1439190054
ISBN-13: 9781439190050
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Publish Date: 01/04/2011
Dimensions: 8.30" L, 5.50" W, 0.70" H

The Shell Collector: Stories

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Overview

The “perilously beautiful” (Boston Globe) first story collection by the author of the acclaimed Pulitzer Prize-winning #1 New York Times bestseller All The Light We Cannot See and Cloud Cuckoo Land.

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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"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
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Details

ISBN-10: 1439190054
ISBN-13: 9781439190050
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Publish Date: 01/04/2011
Dimensions: 8.30" L, 5.50" W, 0.70" H
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