Big Lonesome: Stories
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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).
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Joseph Scapellato. (2017). Big Lonesome: Stories. HarperCollins.
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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). - reviews
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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. “Immigrants” offers an idealized mini-biography of a child of immigrants, told from a parent’s perspective; the name of the child is left blank throughout, emphasizing the universality and, perhaps, the triteness of this dream. Other evocative stories—among them “Western Avenue,” “Life Story,” “Driving in the Early Dark, Ted Falls Asleep”—are like high-resolution snapshots, full of vivid detail. The few longer, shaggier stories are filled with subtitles that break them into episodes and repetitive hooks that lend structure. “Cowboy Good Stuff’s Four True Loves” features a sheriff’s daughter (also a schoolteacher), a Spanish don’s daughter, a prostitute, and a radio as well as some sidebar favorites. In “Cowgirl,” the title character slowly comes to understand her own special strangeness. This debut collection is bracing and delightful.
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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. "Cowgirl" takes its title at face value, describing a young woman, "born of a beef cow," who must navigate a human world that is completely alien to her. "Do I come from myself? Do I come from outside myself? Do I need to know? Do I need new questions?" she asks in a litany that might stand as an epigraph for the entire book. What Scapellato does so well here is what he does throughout these narratives: to take the absurd and make it real. "It was loaded, I was loaded. The bottle was not the only way but it was the way that was available, my husband's way, the weakest way to make me strong," he begins "A Mother Buries a Gun in the Desert Again," the saga of a woman trying to save her teenage son. The truth, of course, is that he can't be saved, any more than anyone here can be--or perhaps it's more accurate to say that he must save himself. Certainly, that's what happens to the protagonist of "Driving in the Early Dark, Ted Falls Asleep," which closes with a plaintive inquiry: "I want to live awake?" Living awake, of course, is the best that we can hope for, which the figures who populate these strange and graceful stories understand. "It was the kind of day that made you think that thinking about the things that mattered was what mattered," the narrator insists in "One of the Days I Nearly Died," which unfolds, for the most part, as a single paragraph. "Was where you were what mattered?" Scapellato's debut is unpredictable, witty, and self-aware while remaining heartfelt in the most unexpected ways.COPYRIGHT(2017) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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