Big Lonesome Stories

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Absurdist journey through mythic American landscapes.

If you're itching for tales that twist the familiar into the extraordinary, "Big Lonesome" could satiate that craving. Joseph Scapellato masterfully stitches together the American West, folding myth into reality, and examining masculinity with a sharp, yet oddball touch. It's a fresh take that while rooted in tradition, marches to the beat of its own wildly inventive drum. You might just find yourself lost in its unique storytelling, where cowboys and creatures grapple with existence in evocative ways.

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Big Lonesome Stories

Regular price RM40.57 MYR
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ISBN: 9780544769809
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Date of Publication: 2017-02-28
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Fantasy, Literary Fiction, Contemporary
Goodreads rating: 3.82
(rated by 71 readers)

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An inventive, ranging debut story collection from a writer hailed by Charles Yu as "a stunningly original voice—warm, 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 West—from the Old West to the modern-day West to the Midwest, from cowboys to mythical creatures to everything in between—exploring place, myth, masculinity, and what it means to be whole or to be broken. Though he works in the tradition of George Saunders and Patrick deWitt—writing subversive, surreal, and affecting stories that unveil the surprising inner lives of ordinary people and the mythic dimensions of our everyday lives—"Scapellato’s Big Lonesome is unlike anything else you’ve ever read" (Robert Boswell).
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Absurdist journey through mythic American landscapes.

If you're itching for tales that twist the familiar into the extraordinary, "Big Lonesome" could satiate that craving. Joseph Scapellato masterfully stitches together the American West, folding myth into reality, and examining masculinity with a sharp, yet oddball touch. It's a fresh take that while rooted in tradition, marches to the beat of its own wildly inventive drum. You might just find yourself lost in its unique storytelling, where cowboys and creatures grapple with existence in evocative ways.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.