The Shell Collector
Stories
Readers rate it 4.1 (28 on Hardcover)
224 pages · Released Feb 15, 2003 · Penguin (Non-Classics)
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This is a literary short story collection by an acclaimed author, not a children's book. While not graphically violent, stories touch on mature themes including grief, mortality, and human desperation. The title story involves medical emergency and a deadly poison used medicinally. The collection explores complex emotional and interpersonal territory suitable for older teens and adults interested in literary fiction.
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“The Shell Collector” (2002), a short story by American author Anthony Doerr, tells the story of a blind shell expert living in exile with his dog in Kenya who becomes something of a celebrity after he uses deadly cone venom to cure a local eight-year-old girl of Malaria. “The Shell Collector” (2002), a short story by American author Anthony Doerr, tells the story of a blind shell expert living in exile with his dog in Kenya who becomes something of a celebrity after he uses deadly cone venom to cure a local eight-year-old girl of Malaria.
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- Grief
- Interpersonal relations
- Metamorphosis
- American Short stories
- Survival
- Fiction
- Short stories, American
- Nature
- Nature stories
- New York Times reviewed
- Cuentos sobre la naturaleza
- Ficcion
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ISBN 9780142002964 · Penguin (Non-Classics)