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1 de ene. de 2001 · The Shell Collector. Anthony Doerr. 3.99. 16,214 ratings1,886 reviews. 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.
The eight exquisitely crafted stories in Anthony Doerr’s first book take readers from Lamu on the eastern coast of Africa to the pine forests of Montana to the damp moors of Lapland, charting a vast physical and emotional landscape.
1 de sept. de 2022 · The Shell Collector: Directed by Nicholas Humphries. With William Carson, Caitlin Clark, Jim Ewens, Jennifer Higgin. It follows a widow with two children who befriends some interesting characters in her small seaside town as she looks to move on ahead with her new life after the death of her husband.
How do you balance your research into or knowledge of the natural world, with the human characters and relationships that are at the heart of any powerful story? Take, for instance, the title story, "The Shell Collector." Which came first: the deadly cone snail, or the character of the blind collector? How did the two find each other?
4 de ene. de 2011 · The Shell Collector: A scientist who collects shells lives like a hermit in a isolated coastal land in Kenya where he discovers an elixir, derived from a sea snail, which forces him to contemplate the manner in which civilization usurps all of nature's wonders for its commercial purposes.
In this astonishingly assured, exquisitely crafted debut collection, Anthony Doerr takes readers from the African coast to the suburbs of Ohio, from sideshow pageantry to...
Anthony Doerr. Flamingo, 2002 - Fiction - 219 pages. A remarkable collection of stories from a young American writer of huge potential: 'A show-stopping debut, as close to faultless as any writer...
