The Ballad Of Big Feeling

The Ballad Of Big Feeling
Ari Braverman
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Trade Paperback
h210 x 140mm - 192pg
7 Jul 2020 US
International import eta 7-19 days
9781612197678
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An ambitious portrait of an unnamed woman who craves love and a fantastic life, but finds life is mocking her instead. We witness the woman being scolded at her local gym, having sex after vomiting expensive tuna, witnessing a seizure in a movie theatre. Set in the American heartland that feels at once sprawling and claustrophobic, the woman carves through the years with wavering deliberation, unable to escape the fate of an ordinary life. Throughout this narrative, she forces us to contend with the imagined spaces that so often breed discomfort in our daily lives.
"Brilliant, quietly explosive and slyly purposeful, like a controlled avalanche, The Ballad of Big Feeling rolls coolly downhill, gaining momentum and comic energy with every breathtaking page. It's an auspicious debut." --Paul Beatty, author of The Sellout

"I can't think of a young writer more exactingly hilarious and insightful than Ari Braverman. She writes short little prose bombs that unleash wit and insight and a kind of addictive strangeness, showing that she knows and sees our disturbing world and, amazingly, can bring it perfectly to life on the page." --Ben Marcus, author of The Flame Alphabet

 "The Ballad of Big Feeling dug itself right into my bones on the very first page, with a voice and precision that feels both intimately familiar and achingly strange. It's the most aptly-named book I can think of: lyrical and rich, big-hearted and bold." --Juliet Escoria, author of Juliet the Maniac

"An exquisitely observed debut--funny, horny, singular and sad--and gleaming with sentences that deliver welcome shivers of recognition. With big feeling and fine detail, Braverman pays radiant attention, and in so doing refashions the way a person might see the world." --Hermione Hoby, author of Neon in Daylight

"The Ballad of Big Feeling is an artful book about what it means to be constrained--trapped, really--in an irascible, untidy form. Braverman's debut proves-- lyrically, forcefully-- that for all of our delusions, we are just mammals." --Lee Matalone, author of Home Making

Ari Braverman is the winner of the 2012 James Knudsen Prize in Fiction and a finalist for the 2017 White Review Short Story Prize. Her work has appeared elsewhere in Guernica and Bomb. She has also worked as an assistant editor at Conjunctions.
Status: Indent title, imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781612197678
Published: 7 Jul 2020
Published In: United States
Imprint: Melville House Publishing
Publisher: Melville House Publishing
Format: Trade Paperback
Height: 210mm
Width: 140mm
Pages: 192

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