{"product_id":"9780544769809","title":"Big Lonesome","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"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 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)\"--\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Houghton Mifflin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45394539708495,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":488.0,"currency_code":"TWD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0672\/9174\/2287\/files\/9780544769809-1.jpg?v=1784952967","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.tw\/ja\/products\/9780544769809","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Taiwan","version":"1.0","type":"link"}