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Big Picture: Stories
A General Fiction Short Story Collection by Percival Everett
Subgenres:
- Dark Humor,
- Literary Fiction,
- Short Stories
This book is for you if you're into...
- Darkly comic stories where ordinary objects spark wild obsession
- Characters pushed to extremes by bizarre, unexpected triggers
- Unpredictable reactions to life’s strangest curveballs
Winner of the PEN/Oakland-Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in Literature.
The characters in Big Picture, Percival Everett's darkly comic collection of stories, are often driven to explosive, life-changing action.
Everett delves into those moments when outside forces bring us to the brink of insanity or liberation.
The catalysts in Everett's tales are surprising: a stuffed boar's head, mounted on the wall of a diner, becomes an object of intense, inexplicable desire; a painter is driven to the point of suicide by a mute who returns day after day to mow the artist's lawn; the loss of a pair of dentures sparks a turn toward revelation.
The characters respond to their dilemmas in ways that are both unpredictable and memorable.
Everett's highly original voice propels the reader into unfamiliar, yet unforgettable terrain: a landscape full of excitement, astonishment, and self-discovery.
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