For his first thirty-five years,Joseph Saleeby's mother makes his bed and each of his meals; every morning she makes him read a column of the English dictionary, selected at random, before he is allowed to set foot outside. They live in a small, collapsing house in the hills outside Monrovia in Liberia, West Africa.
"America serves as a vehicle to examine the photographic medium itself, and Soth's relationship to it."
The Shell Collector by Anthony Doerr is a debut collection of eight wonderful stories. Each focuses on an unlikely modern hero, often it is about a man who cuts himself off from society and detached even from himself.
The Shell Collector by Anthony Doerr is a debut collection of eight wonderful stories. Each focuses on an unlikely modern hero, often it is about a man who cuts himself off from society and detached even from himself.
In 'The Caretaker', Anthony Doerr captures the horrors of the Liberian civil war and the racism faced by refugees in America. To combine this complex history with poetic insight regarding guilt and morality, Doerr combines a journalist's objectivity with a poet's metaphors.
In 'The Caretaker', Anthony Doerr captures the horrors of the Liberian civil war and the racism faced by refugees in America. To combine this complex history with poetic insight regarding guilt and morality, Doerr combines a journalist's objectivity with a poet's metaphors.