{"product_id":"big-lonesome-9780544769809","title":"Big Lonesome","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn 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\"\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eBig Lonesome\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003eThough 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 \u003ci\u003eBig Lonesome \u003c\/i\u003eis unlike anything else you've ever read\" (Robert Boswell).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Mariner Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/28\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780544769809\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.10h x 5.40w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/12\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2017\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Joseph Scapellato","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36638496686236,"sku":"9780544769809","price":11.86,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_7a97fa22-bc66-4364-b934-78b7471c3a53.jpg?v=1603847430","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/big-lonesome-9780544769809","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}