{"product_id":"big-lonesome-9780544769809","title":"Big Lonesome","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\nThough 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).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mariner Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42977138114726,"sku":"9780544769809","price":17.9,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0443\/8471\/4918\/products\/9780544769809_1.jpg?v=1656101231","url":"https:\/\/bookxcess.myshopify.com\/products\/big-lonesome-9780544769809","provider":"Staging Site ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}