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Big Lonesome: stories
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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).
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APA Citation (style guide)

Scapellato, J. (2017). Big Lonesome: stories. Boston, Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)

Scapellato, Joseph, 1982-. 2017. Big Lonesome: Stories. Boston, Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

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Scapellato, Joseph, 1982-, Big Lonesome: Stories. Boston, Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017.

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Scapellato, Joseph. Big Lonesome: Stories. Boston, Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017.

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