{"product_id":"big-lonesome-9780544769809","title":"Big Lonesome","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Joseph Scapellato\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Harper Perennial\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Harper Perennial\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Short Stories (single 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","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45409008320663,"sku":"9780544769809","price":1070.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780544769809.webp?v=1767105738","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/big-lonesome-9780544769809","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}