A tree or a person or a wall : stories / Matt Bell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bell, Matt, 1980- author.

Standardized Title:

Short stories. selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Short stories, American.

Genre:

Short stories, American.

Short stories.

Physical Description:

388 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Soho Press, [2016]

Summary:

"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, ingering evidence of the violence and unknowability of the world. A Tree or a Person or a Wall brings together Bell's previously published shorter fiction--the story collection How They Were Found and the acclaimed novella Cataclysm Baby--along with seven dark and disturbing new stories, to create a collection of singular power"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

A tree or a person or a wall

Doll parts

Dredge

Wolf parts

Her ennead

The stations

The cartographer

For you we are holding

The Migration

His last great gift

A certain number of bedrooms

The collectors

Index of how our family was killed

The receiving tower

Inheritance

Cataclysm baby

A long walk with only chalk to mark the way.

ISBN:

9781616955236

1616955236

OCLC:

933420564

Publisher Number:

99969103688