The Shell Collector: Stories -- Anthony Doerr

The perilously beautiful (<i>Boston Globe</i>) first story collection by the author of the acclaimed Pulitzer Prize-winning #1 <i>New York Times</i> bestseller <i>All The Light We Cannot See</i>. <p/>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.<br><br><b>Author:</b> Anthony Doerr<br><b>Publisher:</b> Scribner Book Company<br><b>Published:</b> 01/04/2011<br><b>Pages:</b> 240<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.50lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 8.30h x 5.50w x 0.70d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9781439190050<br><p><b>About the Author</b><br>Anthony Doerr is the author of <i>All the Light We Cannot See, </i>winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the Carnegie Medal, the Alex Award, and a #1 <i>New York Times </i>bestseller. He is also the author of the story collections <i>Memory Wall</i> and <i>The Shell Collector</i>, the novel <i>About Grace</i>, and the memoir <i>Four Seasons in Rome</i>. He has won five O. Henry Prizes, the Rome Prize, the New York