The Shell Collector: Stories
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 moor...show more
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“This all started when a malarial Seattle-born Buddhist named Nancy was stung by a cone shell in the shell collector’s kitchen.”
The events that unfold after Nancy encountered a deadly cone shell will forever alter the insular world that the shell collector had created for himself and his seeing-eye German Shepard, Tumaini. The setting of this title story of Anthony Doerr’s short story collection is a small marine park in a remote area of the La...read more
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