Hardcover, 219 pages
English language
Published Dec. 25, 2001 by Scribner.
4 stars
(2 reviews)
“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.
Subjects
- General & Literary Fiction
- Short stories
- American First Novelists
- Fiction - General
- Fiction
- Literary
- Short Stories (single author)
- Fiction / Short Stories (single author)