{"product_id":"how-they-were-found-book-matt-bell-9780982151259","title":"How They Were Found","description":"Reminiscent of Friedrich D rrenmatt's \u003ci\u003eThe Winter War\u003c\/i\u003e in Tibet in its calm examination and unsettling embodiment of mental and physical extremes, \u003ci\u003eHow They Were Found \u003c\/i\u003eis a dreamer's chronicle of the loss and partial recovery of a world given over to the wrecking ball. Fierce, unflinching, funny, \u003ci\u003eHow They Were Found \u003c\/i\u003eis just the book we need right now, Matt Bell just the writer. --Laird Hunt, author of \u003ci\u003eRay of the Star\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eHow They Were Found \u003c\/i\u003eoffers a world with shifting rules, described with a lovely and deceptive simplicity. This guide shows you thirteen different types of wilderness, and you can spend all day exploring before you realize you are lost. --Amelia Gray, author of \u003ci\u003eMuseum of the Weird\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eYou're a robot if the stories in Matt Bell's debut collection don't exhilarate, frighten, and unalterably change you. His wild manipulation of form and genre makes the bulk of contemporary fiction feels bloodless and inert in comparison, but it is Bell's recurring arrival at something sturdy and true about human behavior that makes the stories in \u003ci\u003eHow They Were Found \u003c\/i\u003eso rewarding and resonant. --Matthew Derby, author of \u003ci\u003eSuper Flat Times: Stories\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this debut collection, Matt Bell draws from a wide range of genres to create stories that are both formally innovative and imaginatively rich. In one, a 19th-century minister follows ghostly instructions to build a mechanical messiah. In another, a tyrannical army commander watches his apocalyptic command slip away as the memories of his men begin to fade and fail. Elsewhere, murders are indexed, new worlds are mapped, fairy tales are fractured and retold and then fractured again. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThroughout these thirteen stories, Bell's careful prose burrows at the foundations of his characters' lives until they topple over, then painstakingly pores over the wreckage for what rubbled humanity might yet remain to be found.\u003cbr\u003eContains the story Dredge, selected for \u003ci\u003eBest American Mystery Stories 2010\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50369274380561,"sku":"CIN098215125XG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50576348381457,"sku":"CIN098215125XVG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/098215125X.jpg?v=1751078418","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/de-ch\/products\/how-they-were-found-buch-matt-bell-9780982151259","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}