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- Brand New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
- Country/Region of Manufacture
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0544769805
ISBN-13
9780544769809
eBay Product ID (ePID)
219140870
Product Key Features
Book Title
Big Lonesome
Number of Pages
192 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2017
Topic
Fantasy / Collections & Anthologies, Short Stories (Single Author), Absurdist
Genre
Fiction
Format
Trade Paperback
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Item Height
0.4 in
Item Weight
5.9 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5.3 in
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Intended Audience
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LCCN
2016-029360
Reviews
"Scapellato's first collection of short fiction means to bust the mythologies of the American West. In these 25 stories, Scapellato moves from the allegorical to the (almost) natural, traversing the territory with a fluid grace...Scapellato's debut is unpredictable, witty, and self-aware while remaining heartfelt in the most unexpected ways."-- Kirkus Reviews Scapellato''s refreshing stories engage at every point and are capped off with perfect endings. Scapellato is an exceptional surrealist, and he seems to have a firm handle on his own exuberance and quirkiness, his characters reminiscent of familiar archetypes but served with a twist. His subjects never wander far from cowboys, cowgirls, and the myths of the cinematic West. His short stories have a lean trajectory and economy....This debut collection is bracing and delightful." (Feb.) "Joseph Scapellato writes like Wallace Stegner on peyote, Nathanael West in a sweat lodge, Larry McMurtry on a vision quest. Big Lonesome whirls the icons of the American West though his virtuosic kaleidoscope. Each story is zany and surreal, yes, but also ferociously real, every page veined with surprise and insight and heartbreak and wonder. Scapellato is an oddball oracle, this book his gobsmackingly original prophecy." --Claire Vaye Watkins, author of Gold Fame Citrus "In his brilliant, heartbreaking debut story collection, Big Lonesome , Joseph Scapellato offers up the only kind of cowboy I hunger for: mythic and flawed and nameless and timeless and horribly, unsettlingly modern. These stories are fantastic."--Manuel Gonzales, author of The Regional Office is Under Attack! "The range of virtuosity that Joseph Scapellato displays in Big Lonesome is simply astonishing. You want dazzling wordplay? It''s here. You want the Old West and the New West, and tales that make myths, break myths, and mock myths? They''re here. You want straightforward, realistic fiction in the form of a heart-breaking death-of-love story? Here. A desert race-for-life adventure? Here. So cinch your saddle tight and keep a firm hold on the reins-- Big Lonesome is a hell of a ride."--Larry Watson, author of Montana 1948 "If this is what the future sounds like, we have something to celebrate, after all. Joseph Scapellato''s Big Lonesome is quick and sharp and funny and unlike anything else you''ve ever read." --Robert Boswell, author of Tumbledown , Mystery Ride, Crooked Hearts, & The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards "Joseph Scapellato's Big Lonesome is an accomplished debut, a collection of tall tales and campfire stories that create a Wild West unlike any other. With a voice like Barry Hannah channeling Larry McMurtry, Scapellato has updated the cowboy--one of the great American protagonists--into a newly complex, audacious, and utterly contemporary character." --Matt Bell, author of In the House upon the Dirt between the Lake and the Woods "The stories in Joseph Scapellato''s Big Lonesome are terrifically funny and haunting accounts of people shedding their self-mythologizing ways. On this open range of wrecked memories and dreamscapes, the characters come to terms with their own experiences of pure truth and poisonous truth and humanizing and debasing shame and dirty love and duty love. They learn to live with the many old lonesomenesses dying in them and the new ones trying but failing to kill them. You know that one marvelous tale that has never left you since you first heard it, the one that makes you laugh-cough bloody glass and bright stars every time it comes to your mind? Joseph Scapellato''s brilliant Big Lonesome offers you twenty-five of them!"--Kevin McIlvoy, author of Little Peg, Hyssop, and The Complete History of New Mexico and Other Stories, "Joseph Scapellato writes like Wallace Stegner on peyote, Nathanael West in a sweat lodge, Larry McMurtry on a vision quest. Big Lonesome whirls the icons of the American West though his virtuosic kaleidoscope. Each story is zany and surreal, yes, but also ferociously real, every page veined with surprise and insight and heartbreak and wonder. Scapellato is an oddball oracle, this book his gobsmackingly original prophecy." --Claire Vaye Watkins, author of Battleborn "If this is what the future sounds like, we have something to celebrate, after all. Joseph Scapellato's Big Lonesome is quick and sharp and funny and unlike anything else you've ever read." --Robert Boswell, author of Tumbledown , Mystery Ride, Crooked Hearts, & The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards "Joseph Scapellato's Big Lonesome is an accomplished debut, a collection of tall tales and campfire stories that create a Wild West unlike any other. With a voice like Barry Hannah channeling Larry McMurtry, Scapellato has updated the cowboy--one of the great American protagonists--into a newly complex, audacious, and utterly contemporary character." --Matt Bell, author of In the House upon the Dirt between the Lake and the Woods, "Vividly recasting many Western archetypes, Scapellato's inventive, hallucinatory prose dazzles...Normally quotidian encounters become epic in Scapellato's worlds, and the sentences [...] exquisitely fashion routine encounters into much more...A timely dose of his absurdism could prove an antivenom to our problematic times."--New York Times Book Review "Rich with refined poeticism and imagination...Original and gripping, with several exceptional entries towards the end that reveal Scapellato as a masterful storyteller...Big Lonesome [is] a noteworthy collection cumulatively, [and its best stories] highlight the promise of Scapellato's next project."--PopMatters "Often amusing, thoughtful and poetic, Big Lonesome is a weird and wildly inventive collection of 25 uniquely imagined short stories focused on the mythologies of the American West and the archetypal nomadic characters who roam the vast, pockmarked, barren landscape...Affecting and utterly unique, Scapellato's absurd reimagining of the roughed-up, Stetson-wearing cowboy who once inhabited the American West will startle and surprise those accustomed to Western fiction. Big Lonesome is an impressive debut story collection by a canny, poetically talented storyteller."--Lancashire Evening Post "The stories in the first section update the Western tall tale as post-modern trickster narrative. The spirit of Sut Lovingood, George Washington Harris's Old Southwestern version on Huck Finn, which inspired Twain and Faulkner, returns to disrupt rather than instruct. Whereas Sut concocted revenge pranks to satirize preachers, politicians, and other targets of regional scorn, Scapellato's unnamed cowboys raise their pistols to all before locking eyes on themselves...Scapellato's gift is to convey the collapse of his characters with the sparest language and thrift of detail...[He] defies genre expectation...The trajectory of redemption suggests Flannery O'Connor at her best."--Brooklyn Rail "Scapellato's first collection of short fiction means to bust the mythologies of the American West. In these 25 stories, Scapellato moves from the allegorical to the (almost) natural, traversing the territory with a fluid grace...Scapellato's debut is unpredictable, witty, and self-aware while remaining heartfelt in the most unexpected ways."--Kirkus Reviews "Scapellato's refreshing stories engage at every point and are capped off with perfect endings. Scapellato is an exceptional surrealist, and he seems to have a firm handle on his own exuberance and quirkiness, his characters reminiscent of familiar archetypes but served with a twist. His subjects never wander far from cowboys, cowgirls, and the myths of the cinematic West. His short stories have a lean trajectory and economy. ..This debut collection is bracing and delightful."--Publishers Weekly "These 25 stories range from the mythic and bizarre to the modern and incisively realistic...genre-blending."--Booklist "Through a careful give and take between familiar imagery and surrealist flourishes, Joseph Scapellato's debut collection Big Lonesome is a subversive love letter to The Wild West...[with] a Saunders-like sense of compassion and empathy."--Various Small Flames "Joseph Scapellato's collection is a lot of things: risky, honest, and romantic, "Joseph Scapellato writes like Wallace Stegner on peyote, Nathaniel West in a sweat lodge, Larry McMurtry on a vision quest. Big Lonesome whirls the icons of the American West though his virtuosic kaleidoscope. Each story is zany and surreal, yes, but also ferociously real, every page veined with surprise and insight and heartbreak and wonder. Scapellato is an oddball oracle, this book his gobsmackingly original prophecy." --Claire Vaye Watkins, author of Battleborn "If this is what the future sounds like, we have something to celebrate, after all. Joseph Scapellato's Big Lonesome is quick and sharp and funny and unlike anything else you've ever read." --Robert Boswell, author of Tumbledown , Mystery Ride, Crooked Hearts, & The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards "Joseph Scapellato's Big Lonesome is an accomplished debut, a collection of tall tales and campfire stories that create a Wild West unlike any other. With a voice like Barry Hannah channeling Larry McMurtry, Scapellato has updated the cowboy--one of the great American protagonists--into a newly complex, audacious, and utterly contemporary character." --Matt Bell, author of In the House upon the Dirt between the Lake and the Woods, "Joseph Scapellato writes like Wallace Stegner on peyote, Nathanael West in a sweat lodge, Larry McMurtry on a vision quest. Big Lonesome whirls the icons of the American West though his virtuosic kaleidoscope. Each story is zany and surreal, yes, but also ferociously real, every page veined with surprise and insight and heartbreak and wonder. Scapellato is an oddball oracle, this book his gobsmackingly original prophecy." --Claire Vaye Watkins, author of Gold Fame Citrus "In his brilliant, heartbreaking debut story collection, Big Lonesome , Joseph Scapellato offers up the only kind of cowboy I hunger for: mythic and flawed and nameless and timeless and horribly, unsettlingly modern. These stories are fantastic."--Manuel Gonzales, author of The Regional Office is Under Attack! "The range of virtuosity that Joseph Scapellato displays in Big Lonesome is simply astonishing. You want dazzling wordplay? It's here. You want the Old West and the New West, and tales that make myths, break myths, and mock myths? They're here. You want straightforward, realistic fiction in the form of a heart-breaking death-of-love story? Here. A desert race-for-life adventure? Here. So cinch your saddle tight and keep a firm hold on the reins-- Big Lonesome is a hell of a ride."--Larry Watson, author of Montana 1948 "If this is what the future sounds like, we have something to celebrate, after all. Joseph Scapellato's Big Lonesome is quick and sharp and funny and unlike anything else you've ever read." --Robert Boswell, author of Tumbledown , Mystery Ride, Crooked Hearts, & The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards "Joseph Scapellato's Big Lonesome is an accomplished debut, a collection of tall tales and campfire stories that create a Wild West unlike any other. With a voice like Barry Hannah channeling Larry McMurtry, Scapellato has updated the cowboy--one of the great American protagonists--into a newly complex, audacious, and utterly contemporary character." --Matt Bell, author of In the House upon the Dirt between the Lake and the Woods "The stories in Joseph Scapellato's Big Lonesome are terrifically funny and haunting accounts of people shedding their self-mythologizing ways. On this open range of wrecked memories and dreamscapes, the characters come to terms with their own experiences of pure truth and poisonous truth and humanizing and debasing shame and dirty love and duty love. They learn to live with the many old lonesomenesses dying in them and the new ones trying but failing to kill them. You know that one marvelous tale that has never left you since you first heard it, the one that makes you laugh-cough bloody glass and bright stars every time it comes to your mind? Joseph Scapellato's brilliant Big Lonesome offers you twenty-five of them!"--Kevin McIlvoy, author of Little Peg, Hyssop, and The Complete History of New Mexico and Other Stories, "Joseph Scapellato writes like Wallace Stegner on peyote, Nathanael West in a sweat lodge, Larry McMurtry on a vision quest. Big Lonesome whirls the icons of the American West though his virtuosic kaleidoscope. Each story is zany and surreal, yes, but also ferociously real, every page veined with surprise and insight and heartbreak and wonder. Scapellato is an oddball oracle, this book his gobsmackingly original prophecy." --Claire Vaye Watkins, author of Battleborn "If this is what the future sounds like, we have something to celebrate, after all. Joseph Scapellato's Big Lonesome is quick and sharp and funny and unlike anything else you've ever read." --Robert Boswell, author of Tumbledown , Mystery Ride, Crooked Hearts, & The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards "Joseph Scapellato's Big Lonesome is an accomplished debut, a collection of tall tales and campfire stories that create a Wild West unlike any other. With a voice like Barry Hannah channeling Larry McMurtry, Scapellato has updated the cowboy--one of the great American protagonists--into a newly complex, audacious, and utterly contemporary character." --Matt Bell, author of In the House upon the Dirt between the Lake and the Woods "The stories in Joseph Scapellato's Big Lonesome are terrifically funny and haunting accounts of people shedding their self-mythologizing ways. On this open range of wrecked memories and dreamscapes, the characters come to terms with their own experiences of pure truth and poisonous truth and humanizing and debasing shame and dirty love and duty love. They learn to live with the many old lonesomenesses dying in them and the new ones trying but failing to kill them. You know that one marvelous tale that has never left you since you first heard it, the one that makes you laugh-cough bloody glass and bright stars every time it comes to your mind? Joseph Scapellato's brilliant Big Lonesome offers you twenty-five of them!"--Kevin McIlvoy, author of Little Peg, Hyssop, and The Complete History of New Mexico and Other Stories, "Joseph Scapellato writes like Wallace Stegner on peyote, Nathanael West in a sweat lodge, Larry McMurtry on a vision quest. Big Lonesome whirls the icons of the American West though his virtuosic kaleidoscope. Each story is zany and surreal, yes, but also ferociously real, every page veined with surprise and insight and heartbreak and wonder. Scapellato is an oddball oracle, this book his gobsmackingly original prophecy." --Claire Vaye Watkins, author of Gold Fame Citrus "The range of virtuosity that Joseph Scapellato displays in Big Lonesome is simply astonishing. You want dazzling wordplay? It's here. You want the Old West and the New West, and tales that make myths, break myths, and mock myths? They're here. You want straightforward, realistic fiction in the form of a heart-breaking death-of-love story? Here. A desert race-for-life adventure? Here. So cinch your saddle tight and keep a firm hold on the reins-- Big Lonesome is a hell of a ride."--Larry Watson, author of Montana 1948 "If this is what the future sounds like, we have something to celebrate, after all. Joseph Scapellato's Big Lonesome is quick and sharp and funny and unlike anything else you've ever read." --Robert Boswell, author of Tumbledown , Mystery Ride, Crooked Hearts, & The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards "Joseph Scapellato's Big Lonesome is an accomplished debut, a collection of tall tales and campfire stories that create a Wild West unlike any other. With a voice like Barry Hannah channeling Larry McMurtry, Scapellato has updated the cowboy--one of the great American protagonists--into a newly complex, audacious, and utterly contemporary character." --Matt Bell, author of In the House upon the Dirt between the Lake and the Woods "The stories in Joseph Scapellato's Big Lonesome are terrifically funny and haunting accounts of people shedding their self-mythologizing ways. On this open range of wrecked memories and dreamscapes, the characters come to terms with their own experiences of pure truth and poisonous truth and humanizing and debasing shame and dirty love and duty love. They learn to live with the many old lonesomenesses dying in them and the new ones trying but failing to kill them. You know that one marvelous tale that has never left you since you first heard it, the one that makes you laugh-cough bloody glass and bright stars every time it comes to your mind? Joseph Scapellato's brilliant Big Lonesome offers you twenty-five of them!"--Kevin McIlvoy, author of Little Peg, Hyssop, and The Complete History of New Mexico and Other Stories, "Scapellato's first collection of short fiction means to bust the mythologies of the American West. In these 25 stories, Scapellato moves from the allegorical to the (almost) natural, traversing the territory with a fluid grace...Scapellato's debut is unpredictable, witty, and self-aware while remaining heartfelt in the most unexpected ways."-- Kirkus Reviews "Joseph Scapellato writes like Wallace Stegner on peyote, Nathanael West in a sweat lodge, Larry McMurtry on a vision quest. Big Lonesome whirls the icons of the American West though his virtuosic kaleidoscope. Each story is zany and surreal, yes, but also ferociously real, every page veined with surprise and insight and heartbreak and wonder. Scapellato is an oddball oracle, this book his gobsmackingly original prophecy." --Claire Vaye Watkins, author of Gold Fame Citrus "In his brilliant, heartbreaking debut story collection, Big Lonesome , Joseph Scapellato offers up the only kind of cowboy I hunger for: mythic and flawed and nameless and timeless and horribly, unsettlingly modern. These stories are fantastic."--Manuel Gonzales, author of The Regional Office is Under Attack! "The range of virtuosity that Joseph Scapellato displays in Big Lonesome is simply astonishing. You want dazzling wordplay? It's here. You want the Old West and the New West, and tales that make myths, break myths, and mock myths? They're here. You want straightforward, realistic fiction in the form of a heart-breaking death-of-love story? Here. A desert race-for-life adventure? Here. So cinch your saddle tight and keep a firm hold on the reins-- Big Lonesome is a hell of a ride."--Larry Watson, author of Montana 1948 "If this is what the future sounds like, we have something to celebrate, after all. Joseph Scapellato's Big Lonesome is quick and sharp and funny and unlike anything else you've ever read." --Robert Boswell, author of Tumbledown , Mystery Ride, Crooked Hearts, & The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards "Joseph Scapellato's Big Lonesome is an accomplished debut, a collection of tall tales and campfire stories that create a Wild West unlike any other. With a voice like Barry Hannah channeling Larry McMurtry, Scapellato has updated the cowboy--one of the great American protagonists--into a newly complex, audacious, and utterly contemporary character." --Matt Bell, author of In the House upon the Dirt between the Lake and the Woods "The stories in Joseph Scapellato's Big Lonesome are terrifically funny and haunting accounts of people shedding their self-mythologizing ways. On this open range of wrecked memories and dreamscapes, the characters come to terms with their own experiences of pure truth and poisonous truth and humanizing and debasing shame and dirty love and duty love. They learn to live with the many old lonesomenesses dying in them and the new ones trying but failing to kill them. You know that one marvelous tale that has never left you since you first heard it, the one that makes you laugh-cough bloody glass and bright stars every time it comes to your mind? Joseph Scapellato's brilliant Big Lonesome offers you twenty-five of them!"--Kevin McIlvoy, author of Little Peg, Hyssop, and The Complete History of New Mexico and Other Stories, "Joseph Scapellato writes like Wallace Stegner on peyote, Nathaniel West in a sweat lodge, Larry McMurtry on a vision quest. Big Lonesome whirls the icons of the American West though his virtuosic kaleidoscope. Each story is zany and surreal, yes, but also ferociously real, every page veined with surprise and insight and heartbreak and wonder. Scapellato is an oddball oracle, this book his gobsmackingly original prophecy."--Claire Vaye Watkins, author of Battleborn "If this is what the future sounds like, we have something to celebrate, after all. Joseph Scapellato's Big Lonesome is quick and sharp and funny and unlike anything else you've ever read."--Robert Boswell, author of Tumbledown , Mystery Ride, Crooked Hearts, & The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards "Joseph Scapellato's Big Lonesome is an accomplished debut, a collection of tall tales and campfire stories that create a Wild West unlike any other. With a voice like Barry Hannah channeling Larry McMurtry, Scapellato has updated the cowboy--one of the great American protagonists--into a newly complex, audacious, and utterly contemporary character."--Matt Bell, author of In the House upon the Dirt between the Lake and the Woods
Synopsis
An 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" 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)., An 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"
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PS3619.C2666A6 2017
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