Big Lonesome
Subtitle: stories
By: Joseph Scapellato
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9780544769809
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Western stories; Fiction
Work titles: Short stories
Description: "An inventive, ranging debut story collection from a writer hailed by Claire Vaye Watkins as "Wallace Stegner on peyote, Nathanael West in a sweat lodge, Larry McMurtry on a vision quest." 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)"--
Table of contents: title: Old West --; title: Big Lonesome Beginnings --; title: Horseman Cowboy --; title: Thataway --; title: Cowboy Good Stuff's Four True Loves --; title: Mutt-Face --; title: Five Episodes of White-Hat Black-Hat --; title: Fourteen Cowboys by the Fire --; title: New West --; title: Big Lonesome Middles --; title: Cowgirl --; title: A Mother Buries a Gun in the Desert Again --; title: Immigrants --; title: Small Boy Driving in the Early Dark, Ted Falls Asleep --; title: Drunk in Texas, Two New Friends Talked Horses --; title: Snake Canyon --; title: Post-West Big Lonesome Endings --; title: The Veteran --; title: It Meant There Would Be More One of the Days I Nearly Died --; title: We Try to Find the Spring in Spring Rock Park in Western Springs, Illinois --; title: Western Avenue --; title: Dead Dogs --; title: Life Story --; title: Company --; title: Father's Day.