Scrapper
For fans of The Dog Stars and Station Eleven, Scrapper traces one man’s desperate quest for redemption in a devastated Detroit."Has the feel of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road set in present-day Motor City... powerful."—Publishers WeeklyDetroit has descended into ruin. Kelly scavenges for scrap metal...
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For fans of The Dog Stars and Station Eleven, Scrapper traces one man’s desperate quest for redemption in a devastated Detroit."Has the feel of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road set in present-day Motor City... powerful."—Publishers WeeklyDetroit has descended into ruin. Kelly scavenges for scrap metal from the hundred thousand abandoned buildings in a part of the city known as “
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781616955229 (1616955228)
Publisher: Soho Press
Edition language: English
The premise of Matt Bell's latest novel, Scrapper, is fantastic. This psychological tale of post-fall Detroit centers around a scavenger who guts homes and businesses for scrap metal. In the book's opening chapters, the scavenger, Kelly, finds a boy who has been kidnapped. The rest of the novel focu...