Scrapper
โ Scribed by Bell, Matt
- Book ID
- 108881321
- Publisher
- Soho Press
- Year
- 2015
- Tongue
- en-GB
- Weight
- 137 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781616955212
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โฆ Synopsis
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 Weekly
Detroit has descended into ruin. Kelly scavenges for scrap metal from the hundred thousand abandoned buildings in a part of the city known as "the zone," an increasingly wild landscape where one day he finds something far more valuable than the copper he's come to steal: a kidnapped boy, crying out for rescue. Briefly celebrated as a hero, Kelly secretly avenges the boy's unsolved kidnapping, a task that will take him deeper into the zone and into a confrontation with his own past and long-buried traumas.
The second novel from the acclaimed author of In the House upon the Dirt between the Lake and the Woods , Scrapper is a devastating reimagining of one of...
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