The Shell Collector: Stories (2002) by Anthony Doerr Critical Evalulation "Reading Anthony Doerr's fine first collection of stories is like eavesdropping on a group of people who are standing at a picture window inventing tall tales about the wilderness they see outside. But while the perspectives of the characters in 'The Shell Collector' range widely, from a lonely New England teenager to a Liberian refugee in Oregon, two themes unite the book's storytelling: hunting and being hunted, holding on and letting go. In one story, an outdoorsman from Montana falls in love with a magician's assistant who has the power to [...]