Staff Pick
If you loved All the Light We Cannot See and you enjoy short stories, you have to read this! Doerr steeps his characters in specialness. I cannot stop thinking about them. Recommended By Britt A., Powells.com
Synopses & Reviews
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.
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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Andrea Barrett author of Ship Fever and Servants of the Map These complex, resonant, beautifully realized stories sing. An entire world unfolds in each, memorable and rich; together, they form a remarkable first collection.
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Elwood Reid author of Midnight Sun and What Salmon Know Beware, each story in this wide-ranging collection conjures whole haunted worlds. With drop-dead precision Anthony Doerr's well-wrought stories demonstrate a command far beyond his years. The Shell Collector is nothing less than a monstrously assured debut.
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Rick Bass author of Where the Sea Used to Be Anthony Doerr is a wonderful new writer. His stories reach deep and mine the forgotten places, as well as the never-before-discovered. These stories don't just observe beauty, they help create it.
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“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 of Eat, Pray, Love
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"The Shell Collector is breathtaking.... Perilously beautiful." --Boston Globe
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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
Synopsis
Tony Doerr's acclaimed debut story collection, now in a new edition from Scribner.
Synopsis
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.
Synopsis
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.
About the Author
Anthony Doerr was awarded the 2010 Story Prize for Memory Wall. His other books include The Shell Collector, About Grace, and Four Seasons in Rome. His books have been a New York Times Notable Book, an American Library Association Book of the Year, a "Book of the Year" in the Washington Post, and he has won the Barnes & Noble Discover Prize, the Rome Prize, the Hodder Fellowship from Princeton, and shared the New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award. His book reviews have appeared in the New York Times and Der Spiegel, and he writes the "On Science" column for the Boston Globe. Doerr is the Writer-in-Residence for the state of Idaho.
Table of Contents
ContentsThe 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
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