{"title": "The Shell Collector", "covers": [13252478], "key": "/works/OL5727892W", "authors": [{"author": {"key": "/authors/OL1392722A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "description": "\u201cThe Shell Collector\u201d (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.", "subjects": ["Grief", "Interpersonal relations", "Metamorphosis", "American Short stories", "Survival", "Fiction", "Short stories, American", "Nature", "Nature stories", "New York Times reviewed", "Cuentos sobre la naturaleza", "Ficcion", "Fiction, short stories (single author)"], "links": [{"url": "http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/03/books/rivers-run-through-it.html", "title": "New York Times review", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}], "latest_revision": 9, "revision": 9, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-10T11:09:52.472882"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2023-04-20T18:18:03.206743"}}