Pamela's review
Big Lonesome
by Jim Ruland (Goodreads author!)
Pamela's review
Big Lonesome by Jim Ruland (Goodreads author!)
Pamela's review
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recommended for: everyone
A vital and energetic collection, full of inventiveness and outsized characters. Ruland takes conventional genre material--mobsters, fairy tales, Western desperadoes--and knowingly spins high literature out of it. Violence is often at the center of these tales, most harrowingly in "Red Cap," a powerful war story. Look to this collection for fresh, precise writing and propulsive forward motion.

