
- 30 pages
- English
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About this book
An inventive, ranging debut story collection from a writer hailed by Charles Yu as "a stunningly original voiceâwarm, bleak, dark, ecstatic, full of silences and power and life"
Reinventing a great American tradition through an absurdist, discerning eye, Joseph Scapellato uses these twenty-five stories to conjure worlds, themes, and characters who are at once unquestionably familiar and undeniably strange. Big Lonesome navigates through the American Westâfrom the Old West to the modern-day West to the Midwest, from cowboys to mythical creatures to everything in betweenâexploring place, myth, masculinity, and what it means to be whole or to be broken.Â
Though he works in the tradition of George Saunders and Patrick deWittâwriting subversive, surreal, and affecting stories that unveil the surprising inner lives of ordinary people and the mythic dimensions of our everyday livesâ"Scapellato's Big Lonesome is unlike anything else you've ever read" (Robert Boswell).
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Print ISBN
9780544769809
Subtopic
Literature GeneralTable of contents
- Title Page
- Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- OLD WEST
- Big Lonesome Beginnings
- Horseman Cowboy
- Thataway
- Cowboy Good Stuffâs Four True Loves
- Mutt-Face
- Five Episodes of White-Hat Black-Hat
- Fourteen Cowboys by the Fire
- NEW WEST
- Big Lonesome Middles
- Cowgirl
- A Mother Buries a Gun in the Desert Again
- Immigrants
- Small Boy
- Driving in the Early Dark, Ted Falls Asleep
- Drunk in Texas, Two New Friends Talked Horses
- Snake Canyon
- POST-WEST
- Big Lonesome Endings
- The Veteran
- It Meant There Would Be More
- One of the Days I Nearly Died
- We Try to Find the Spring in Spring Rock Park in Western Springs, Illinois
- Western Avenue
- Dead Dogs
- Life Story
- Company
- Fatherâs Day
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Connect with HMH
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