Ebook {Epub PDF} In the House Upon the Dirt Between the Lake and the Woods by Matt Bell

In this epic, mythical debut novel, a newly-wed couple escapes the busy confusion of their homeland for a distant and almost-uninhabited lakeshore. They plan to live there simply, to fish the lake, to trap the nearby woods, and build a house upon the dirt between where they can raise a family. But as their every pregnancy fails, the child-obsessed husband begins to rage at this new world: the song-spun . "Matt Bell’s visionary debut novel In the House Upon the Dirt Between the Lake and Woods is one of the most singularly strange and beautiful and wondrous books to come along in a long time [Bell] has invented an entirely new rhetoric of fiction and marked unique territory of his own."/5(52). In the House Upon the Dirt Between the Lake and the Woods is a new novel by Matt Bell and a Michigan Notable Book for It also has wonderful reviews from the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and many other reputable book reviewers/5.

We begin In the House Upon the Dirt between the Lake and the Woods in Kinski's jungle, large and imaginary enough to accommodate a couple's dream to start a family. This novel though is a multi-faceted instrument Matt Bell turns and tilts. As Matt Bell turns the prism nature is suddenly and nakedly Herzog's: dominion of bears, squids and. In marked contrast to the unnamed narrator and his wife in Bell's fantastical debut novel, In the House upon the Dirt Between the Lake and the Woods, out this month from Soho Press, as well as. (Boston Globe, on In the House Upon the Dirt Between the Lake and the Woods) "This is a fiercely original book—at once intimate and epic, visceral and philosophical—that sent me scurrying for adjectives, for precedents, for cover. Matt Bell commands the page with bold, vigorous prose and may well have invented the pulse-pounding novel of.

In the House upon the Dirt between the Lake and the Woods tells the story of a newly married couple who take up a lonely existence in the title's mythical location. In this blank and barren plot far from the world they've known, they mean to start the family the unnamed husband wants so obsessively. But their every pregnancy fails, and as their grief swells, the husband─a hot-tempered and impatient fisherman and trapper─attempts to prove his dominion in other ways, emptying both the lake. Matt Bell’s latest novel, Appleseed, was published by Custom House in July His craft book Refuse to Be Done, a guide to novel writing, rewriting, and revision, will follow in early from Soho Press. He is also the author of the novels Scrapper and In the House upon the Dirt Between the Lake and the Woods, as well as the short story collection A Tree or a Person or a Wall, a non-fiction book about the classic video game Baldur's Gate II, and several other titles. Matt Bell teaches creative writing at Northern Michigan University. In the House Upon the Dirt Between the Lake and the Woods is his first novel. Steve Tatzmann/Courtesy Steve Tatzmann.