

Scrapper
Author: Matt Bell
Narrator: David Chandler
Unabridged: 8 hr 38 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 09/15/2015
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction
Author: Matt Bell
Narrator: David Chandler
Unabridged: 8 hr 38 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 09/15/2015
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction
Matt Bell is the author most recently of the novels Scrapper (a Michigan Notable Book) and In the House upon the Dirt between the Lake and the Woods (a finalist for the Young Lions Fiction Award and an Indies Choice Adult Debut Book of the Year Honor Recipient, as well as the winner of the Paula Anderson Book Award). His stories have appeared in Best American Mystery Stories, Tin House, Conjunctions, Fairy Tale Review, Gulf Coast, and many other publications. A native of Michigan, he now teaches creative writing at Arizona State University.
Hmmm. The writing is excellent, as usual with Bell. But this novel felt like it needed to be much longer to accommodate the various narrative ambitions. There were three sort of sidebars, pulled from current (ish) events, that I struggled to make sense of. Kelly was a thoroughly absorbing character-......more
This novel consumed me, chewed me up and spat me out. It changed me. A reviewer in the New York Times described it as "equal parts dystopian novel, psychological thriller and literary fiction." I could not say it better, although the dystopian aspect is so close to where we already are and have been......more
Scrapper refers to Kelly, a young man who forages for scrap metal and salvageable parts of abandoned buildings in an area of Detroit known as the zone. He removes and sells the parts by the pound. In this dystopian future, “The remainder of a city within the city…A century of reinforced concrete and......more