The Shell Collector Stories

Tony Doerr's acclaimed debut story collection, now in a new edition from Scribner.

Anthony Doerr is the author of All the Light We Cannot See, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the Carnegie Medal, the Alex Award, and a #1 New York Times bestseller. He is also the author of the story collections Memory Wall and The Shell Collector, the novel About Grace, and the memoir Four Seasons in Rome. He has won five O. Henry Prizes, the Rome Prize, the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Award, the National Magazine Award for fiction, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Story Prize. Born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, Doerr lives in Boise, Idaho, with his wife and two sons. 
 

Contents

The Shell Collector

The Hunter's Wife

So Many Chances

For a Long Time

This Was Griselda's Story

July Fourth

The Caretaker

A Tangle by the Rapid River

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