num_pages: 156
description: The characters in Big Picture, Percival Everett's darkly comic collection of stories, are often driven to explosive, life-changing action. Everett delves into those moments when outside forces bring us to the brink of insanity or liberation.The catalysts in Everett's tales are a stuffed boar's head, mounted on the wall of a diner, becomes an object of intense, inexplicable desire; a painter is driven to the point of suicide by a mute who returns day after day to mow the artist's lawn; the loss of a pair of dentures sparks a turn toward revelation.
language: English
title: Big Picture
titlecomplete: Big Picture
genres: Fiction, Short Stories
ratings_count: 69
publisher: Graywolf Press