Clippings/Reviews
Anthony
Doerr's "The Shell Collector" is an unalloyed masterpiece of imagination
and emotion...
January 3, 2004
By Robert J. Wiersema, SPECIAL TO THE VANCOUVER
SUN
It's
easy to see why Anthony Doerr was crowned king of last year's literary debutants,
showered with cash and raves...
July 15, 2003
By Tim Appelo, SPECIAL TO SEATTLE WEEKLY
Stunned
by Success
July 11, 2003
By Jeff Baker, SPECIAL TO THE OREGONIAN
The
eight stories in The Shell Collector match exquisite writing with tales
that feel like folklore...
March 8, 2003
By Karen Sandstrom, SPECIAL TO THE PLAIN
DEALER
These
stories are filled with the vastness of the natural world pressing against human
insignificance...
November 23, 2002
By Alfred Hickling, SPECIAL TO THE GUARDIAN
(UK)
Read
Nancy Willard's review of The Shell Collector in the New York Times
March 7, 2002
By NANCY WILLARD, SPECIAL TO THE NEW YORK
TIMES
Perilously
beautiful, as precise and elegant as calculus, that wider place of Doerr's imagination
is so commanding, so poetically rendered, that it informs and even defines the
characters who wander across its stage.
February 2, 2002
By GAIL CALDWELL, SPECIAL TO THE BOSTON
GLOBE
Fearsome
Conjurings of Nature's Power
January 27, 2002
By
TAMARA STRAUS, SPECIAL TO THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
Anthony
Doerr is a writer who leaves you feeling that you've wasted your life.
January 20, 2002
By RON CARTER, SPECIAL TO THE RICHMOND TIMES DISPATCH
Stories
Give Play to Fascinating Ideas
January 27, 2002
By IRENE WARNER, SPECIAL TO THE SEATTLE
TIMES
Matters
of Nature and the Heart Intertwine in Remarkable Debut
January 15, 2002
By BERNADETTE MURPHY, SPECIAL TO THE LOS
ANGELES TIMES
Young
author masterful in collection of short stories
January 13, 2002
By NANCY CONNORS, SPECIAL TO THE PLAIN DEALER
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