The Shell Collector

Stories

Hardcover, 219 pages

English language

Published Dec. 25, 2001 by Scribner.

ISBN:
978-0-7432-1274-8
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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.

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Subjects

  • General & Literary Fiction
  • Short stories
  • American First Novelists
  • Fiction - General
  • Fiction
  • Literary
  • Short Stories (single author)
  • Fiction / Short Stories (single author)