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The Shell Collector

  • Anthony Doerr

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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.

Genres

  • Grief
  • Interpersonal relations
  • Metamorphosis
  • American Short stories
  • Survival
  • Fiction
  • Short stories, American
  • Nature
  • Nature stories
  • New York Times reviewed
  • Cuentos sobre la naturaleza
  • Ficcion
  • Fiction, short stories (single author)
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About the author

  • Anthony Doerr

    born 1973

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    96 ratings · 23 works

Editions

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    Debolsillo, DEBOLSILLO

    Jun 14, 2018

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    Scribner

    2011

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    Scribner

    2002

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    btb Verlag

    Mar 13, 2017

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Primera edición.

2017

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    Scribner

    December 25, 2001

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    Flamingo

    August 4, 2003

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    Penguin (Non-Classics)

    February 15, 2003

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    New Ed edition

    Flamingo

    August 4, 2003

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    Scribner

    Jan 05, 2002

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    Albin Michel

    2003-01

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    HarperCollins Publishers Limited

    2011

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    HarperCollins Publishers Limited

    2002

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    HarperCollins Publishers Limited

    2006

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    Tandem Library

    February 2003