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Originally from Cleveland, Ohio, Anthony Doerr has lived in Africa and New Zealand. His stories have appeared in The O. Henry Prize Stories, The Atlantic Monthly, The Paris Review, and Zoetrope: All Story. He is twenty-nine years old and lives in Boise, Idaho, where he is at work on a novel.
The Shell Collector
The exquisitely crafted stories in Anthony Doerr's acclaimed debut collection take readers from the African coast to the pine forests of Montana to the damp moors of Lapland, charting a vast physical and emotional landscape. Doerr explores the human condition in all its varieties-metamorphosis, grief, fractured relationships, and slowly mending hearts-and conjures nature in both its beautiful abundance and crushing power. Some of his characters contend with tremendous hardship; some discover unique gifts; all are united by their ultimate deference to the mysteries of the universe outside themselves.
Anthony Doerr's Summer Reading List
An Obsession with Butterflies
by Sharman Apt Russell
A brand new and beautiful-looking book about butterflies --- their metamorphosis & migrations, and also about the psychology of studying them.
Life of Pi
by Yann Martel
A much-hyped novel from last year that is living up to the hype thus far. I've been saving this one all year for when I'm finally done with teaching. I'm on page 50 and already wondering why I haven't thought to write something set at a zoo.
Light Years
by James Salter
This spring several of my graduating masters students cited Salter as an influence and I was too embarrassed to tell them that I'd never even heard of him. And the more I read about him, the more I come across adjectives like, "exquisite," "heartbreaking," "revelatory." So the adjectives, and my students, and shame, have put this one on the nightstand.
The Intuitionist
by Colson Whitehead
Whitehead is such an intelligent, cool writer and I've been saving this one all year. Elevators, magic, conflict --- I'm excited.
The Empty Ocean
by Richard Ellis
I think my next reviews for the Boston Globe will have to do with oceans: several new science books out right now detail just how badly humans have damaged ocean ecosystems. Ellis' looks like the best of them—a veteran author and artist roaming the planet to chronicle our daily pattern of resource depletion. Depressing maybe, but important.
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