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    612-822-4611

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A Tree or a Person or a Wall: Stories

A Tree or a Person or a Wall: Stories

Bell, Matt

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General FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $17.00

ISBN10: 1616955236
ISBN13: 9781616955236
Publisher: Soho Press
Published: Sep 13 2016
Pages: 400
Weight: 0.80
Height: 1.20 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
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 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.

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