{"product_id":"9780983632603","title":"Big Man with a Shovel","description":"\"If there could ever be anything like The Great American Novel, it might look like Big Man with a Shovel, an achievement that shows just how flexible and surprising the novel can be, and how, in the hands of a poet, it may still be the most incisive means we have for examining who we are as individuals and collectively as a society.\"\u003cp\u003eSteve Tomasula, author of VAS: An Opera in Flatland\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The charm and power of Amato's book is in its mutability. Amato's text moves easily through working-class narration, American folklore, high academic palaver, war narrative, editorial splashback, history and ephemera, in an intelligent, erudite, and passionate novel.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSteve Katz, author of Creamy \u0026amp; Delicious\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA work of highly unconventional literary fiction, Big Man with a Shovel is a modern-day fable in which a powerful laborer befriends a young worker only to find himself pitted against a tyrannical foreman. Set in Upstate New York in 1965, this coming-of-age drama mixes folklore, myth, and metafiction in a story that is by turns playful, suspenseful, and mysterious. Available in paperback and Kindle editions.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Steerage Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47010037203184,"sku":"9780983632603","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780983632603_p0.jpg?v=1763876787","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780983632603","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}