- Grief, Interpersonal relations, Metamorphosis, American Short stories
“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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Grave, contemporary, classical in form and earnest.
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- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
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- intimateepic
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- Author
- Anthony Doerr
- First published
- 2001
- Pages
- 236
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers Limited, Debolsillo, Tandem Library
- Editions
- 16
- Language
- English, French, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9783442733989
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Anthony Doerr was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio. He is the author of the story collections The Shell Collector and Memory Wall, the memoir Four Seasons in Rome, and the novels About Grace and All the Light We Cannot See, which was awarded the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for fiction and the 2015 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. Doerr’s short stories and essays have won four O. Henry Prizes and been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories, New American Stories, The Best American Essays, The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Fiction, and lots of other places. His work has been translated into over forty languages and won the Barnes & Noble Discover Prize, the Rome Prize, t
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