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Binding: Hardcover
Format: Bargain Price
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 224
Publication Date: January 14, 2002
Sales Rank: 2412869
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Editorial Review:
Product Description:
The exquisitely crafted stories in Anthony Doerr's acclaimed 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-and conjures nature in both its beautiful abundance and crushing power. Some of his characters contend with tremendous hardship; some discover unique gifts; all are united by their ultimate deference to the mysteries of the universe outside themselves.
Amazon.com Review:
The whorls, chambers, and ribs of the seashell are an elegance unto themselves, but if man-made beauty can come anywhere close to this, Anthony Doerr's short stories would be perfect candidates. His debut collection, The Shell Collector, sets such high standards, sentence to sentence, that it is more like the private architecture of shells than like the random borrowings, sexual details, and flashes of insight that make up the bulk of contemporary fiction. The title story is about a blind man of 58, a scholar of shells (malacology), who retires to an isolated beach-side hut in Kenya, but then accidentally discovers a cure for a major illness in the often-deadly stings of the cone snail. "The Hunter's Wife," a second small masterpiece, describes the marriage of a Montana hunter and his much younger, psychically gifted wife. There are more conventional pieces here; well-written, resonating stories that do not attempt the sweep or descriptive wealth of "The Shell Collector," although they are still at the level of the best realistic fiction that is being published now in America. --Regina Marler
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I haven't finished the book yet, but I felt compelled to write this review after reading "The Hunter's Wife". I was powerfully moved by this story. The voice of the story comes from "the hunter", who has a deep love of nature and lives with it's rhythms. His is a simple voice, yet the natural phenomenon that he describes is anything but simple. I wept when the story ended, both because I was overwhelmed by emotions evoked by the story, and because the story was over and I would never again be ... Read More
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Doerr may have received an award for only one of the short stories in this collection, but they are all certainly worthy of much recognition as is he! This is a tremendous collection of very fine short stories by a single author, and they are endearing, raw, superbly moving, and magical, all at the same time. These are the kind of stories that you read over and over and take away something different each time you read them. All the stories are solidly written with well-developed characters who ... Read More
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An exceptional collection of short stories that exudes life and illicits strong human emotions. A must read for anyone who is moved by beautiful writing. This is a good read anytime, anywhere. Doerr's words will certainly move you. Also check out his first novel: About Grace.
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If you were to tell me that The Shell Collector features mostly stories about people who find majesty, wonder, awe, and rejuvenation through the Mystery of Nature, I would roll my eyes and dismiss the story collection as a precious sentimental meditation on the natural world worthy of a Hallmark Card. However, the aforementioned themes are rendered with expertise, vigor, and indeed pure poetic prose so that even a cynic like myself was able to surrender to Doerr's magical stories. Here are some highlights: ... Read More
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Man and nature. Writers have struggled to make sense of this tortured relationship since the beginning of literature. Lesser authors might shy away from attempts to tread the same hallowed ground explored by titans like Hemingway, Steinbeck or Faulkner. But Anthony Doerr, in "The Shell Collector," succeeds on his own quiet and gentle merits in portraying the pathos of human beings separated from their natural selves by the forces of civilization.
By and large each story here is a gem, revolving ... Read More
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