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A Tree or a Person or a Wall: Stories

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A Tree or a Person or a Wall: Stories

Here we have Matt Bell at his most inventive and uncanny: parents and children, murderers and monsters, wild renditions of the past, and stunning visions of the present, all of which build to a virtuoso reimagining of our world.

A 19th-century minister builds an elaborate motor that will bring about the Second Coming. A man with rough hands locks a boy in a room with an albino ape. An apocalyptic army falls under a veil of forgetfulness. The story of Red Riding Hood is run through a potentially endless series of iterations. A father invents an elaborate, consuming game for his hospitalized son. Indexes, maps, a checkered shirt buried beneath a blanket of snow: they are scattered through these pages as clues to mysteries that may never be solved, lingering evidence of the violence and unknowability of the world.

A Tree or a Person or a Wall brings together Bellâ€™s previously published shorter fictionâ€”the story collection How They Were Found and the acclaimed novella Cataclysm Babyâ€”along with seven dark and disturbing new stories, to create a collection of singular power.
Country USA
Brand Soho Press
Manufacturer Soho Press
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber part_1616955236
Color Black
ReleaseDate 2016-09-13
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781616955236

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