{"product_id":"the-big-impossible-novellas-stories-paperback","title":"The Big Impossible: Novellas + Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEdward J. Delaney\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Easily ranks among the best fiction I've read this year.\" --David Abrams\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"If you've come to look for America, it's here in \u003ci\u003eThe Big Impossible.\u003c\/i\u003e Taut, urgent, emotionally powerful stories about the families, workers, and dreamers who are our neighbors, and Delaney's range and sense of history make him the perfect writer to illuminate their lives.\" --Christopher Castellani, author of \u003ci\u003eLeading Men\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe short fiction in Ted Delaney's new collection explores guilt and redemption, aspiration and failure, and the stubbornness of modest hopes. The usual mileposts are fading, and choice is in the context of institutions and assumptions that are no longer holding steady.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \"Clean,\" a man waits for inevitable justice to come, as much as it will play against him. In \"House of Sully,\" a working-class family navigates the tumultuous year that 1968 was, as new perceptions shake long-held and dependable, if sometimes misguided, beliefs. Other stories examine the inner life of a school shooter, the comical posturing of writers at a literary party, a British veteran of The Great War living at a Florida retirement home but haunted by his losses, and a man's bittersweet visits to past lives via Google Street View. In the sequence set in the West, an itinerant worker moves across the Great Plains, navigating stark landscapes, trying for foothold.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e's C. Michael Curtis praised Ted Delaney's debut collection for its \"moral intensity . . . in the tradition of writers as varied as Ethan Canin and William Trevor.\" Two decades later Delaney returns to the short fiction form with utter mastery.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEdward J. Delaney\u003c\/strong\u003e is an award-winning author, journalist, and filmmaker. His books include the novels \u003ci\u003eFollow the Sun\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBroken Irish\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eWarp \u0026amp; Weft\u003c\/i\u003e, and the short story collection \u003ci\u003eThe Drowning and Other Stories\u003c\/i\u003e. His short fiction has also been published in \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBest American Short Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, and featured on PRI's \u003ci\u003eSelected Shorts\u003c\/i\u003e program. Among other honors, he has received the PEN\/New England Award, O. Henry Prize, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. He is also the co-author of \u003ci\u003eBorn to Play\u003c\/i\u003e, by Boston Red Sox second baseman Dustin Pedroia. As a journalist, Delaney has written for publications including the \u003ci\u003eDenver Post\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e, received the National Education Reporting Award, and has served as an editor at the Neiman Journalism Lab at Harvard University. As a filmmaker, he has directed and produced documentary films including \u003ci\u003eThe Times Were Never So Bad: The Life of Andre Dubus\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLibrary of the Early Mind\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn and raised in Massachusetts, Delaney has also spent time in Georgia, Florida, and Colorado, and now lives in Rhode Island, where he teaches at Roger Williams University and edits the literary journal \u003ci\u003eMount Hope\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 7.9 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 24, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52539264926003,"sku":"9781885983749","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/b1ZMUFNRQUVUUm1RZ2lFRWNQMTRkZz09.webp?v=1760853478","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/the-big-impossible-novellas-stories-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}