The Shell Collector

by Anthony Doerr

First published 2001 · 236 pages

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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.

  • Grief
  • Interpersonal relations
  • Metamorphosis
  • American Short stories
  • Survival
  • Fiction
  • Short stories, American
  • Nature

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