The Shell Collector

Stories

224 pages

English language

Published Feb. 15, 2003 by Penguin (Non-Classics).

ISBN:
978-0-14-200296-4
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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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