The Big Impossible

The Big Impossible
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In prairie towns and backwaters, and in the big cities, people search for themselves and their lost way. Is the American dream still possible in this big, harsh land? The short fiction in The Big Impossible 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. In “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. The Atlantic ’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.

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Edward J. Delaney. The Big Impossible

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ALSO BY EDWARD J. DELANEY

Follow the Sun

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Percy just gapes as the man forces one of the drinks into his hand.

“Call me Cap’n Irv, ’cause everybody does,” he says. “The ladies told me your name. Let me tell you, you’d be wise to stop in to my little place some one of these nights. Ladies need some companionship and there aren’t too many of us—men—around here. At least any worth a damn.”

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