Big Lonesome : stories

Scapellato, Joseph, 1982- author.

Book 2017

"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 throug...

Item Details & Discovery

Explore Topics & Themes:

Middle West Fiction

More in this Genre:

Short stories Western fiction

View technical details & catalog information

ISBN:

9780544769809
0544769805

Description:

182 pages ; 21 cm

Other Title:

Short stories. Selections

Contents:

Old West
Big Lonesome Beginnings
Horseman Cowboy
Thataway
Cowboy Good Stuff's Four True Loves
Mutt-Face
Five Episodes of White-Hat Black-Hat
Fourteen Cowboys by the Fire
New West
Big Lonesome Middles
Cowgirl
A Mother Buries a Gun in the Desert Again
Immigrants
Small Boy Driving in the Early Dark, Ted Falls Asleep
Drunk in Texas, Two New Friends Talked Horses
Snake Canyon
Post-West Big Lonesome Endings
The Veteran
It Meant There Would Be More One of the Days I Nearly Died
We Try to Find the Spring in Spring Rock Park in Western Springs, Illinois
Western Avenue
Dead Dogs
Life Story
Company
Father's Day

LCCN:

2016029360

Control Number:

2411677

View in Classic Catalog