A tree or a person or a wall
Subtitle: stories
By: Matt Bell
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9781616955236
Subjects: American Short stories
Work titles: Short stories
Description: "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"--
Table of contents: title: A tree or a person or a wall --; title: Doll parts --; title: Dredge --; title: Wolf parts --; title: Her ennead --; title: The stations --; title: The cartographer --; title: For you we are holding --; title: The Migration --; title: His last great gift --; title: A certain number of bedrooms --; title: The collectors --; title: Index of how our family was killed --; title: The receiving tower --; title: Inheritance --; title: Cataclysm baby --; title: A long walk with only chalk to mark the way.