{"product_id":"big-lonesome-paperback","title":"Big Lonesome - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJoseph Scapellato\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn 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.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\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. \u003cem\u003eBig Lonesome\u003c\/em\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. 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 \u003cem\u003eBig Lonesome \u003c\/em\u003eis unlike anything else you've ever read\" (Robert Boswell).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJOSEPH SCAPELLATO's fiction has appeared in the \u003ci\u003eKenyon Review \u003c\/i\u003eonline, \u003ci\u003e Gulf Coast, Post Road, \u003c\/i\u003eand other journals, and has been anthologized in \u003ci\u003eForty Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGigantic Worlds: An Anthology of Science Flash Fiction, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e The Best Innovative Writing\u003c\/i\u003e. He teaches at Bucknell University. \u003ci\u003eBig Lonesome \u003c\/i\u003eis his first book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.1 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 28, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51761832591648,"sku":"9780544769809","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/188dfa5b06f903512ad98300bd6ecc33.webp?v=1780213924","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/big-lonesome-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}