![]() ![]() All kinds of writers have defied this tenet over time, so that we have Hemingway's trout streams and Willa Cather's prairies and the rocky desolation of Annie Proulx's landscapes to remind us of our size. Particularly in the English-speaking order of things, the natural world is afforded a place on the second tier in literature, somewhere below fiction and history. In an assessment of Doerr's first book, the short-story collection The Shell Collector, Gail Caldwell wrote for the Boston Globe (January 27, 2002), "Obsessed with our own existence, we tend to be far more enamored with stories about people-about wounded soldiers or heartbroken lovers or alienated souls-than we are with the vibrant theater beyond the human heart. ![]() " Anthony Doerr has won admiration and awards for his skill in incorporating scientific information and observations in tales that illuminate the human condition. ![]()
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