Gigantic

By Marc Nesbitt

Book Overview

An extraordinary collection of dynamic stories by an exciting new voice in American fiction, Gigantic features ten powerful stories of emotional stagnation and personal transformation, passion and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802117090
• ISBN13: 9780802117090
• Release Date: March 2002
• Publisher: Grove Pr
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 1.0" x 5.8"

Customer Reviews

Invisible Man for the New Century

What Sherman Alexie did for the res Indians in "Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heavan," Nesbitt does for his disaffected mullato ekeing out a marginalized existence in the Great White North...Nesbitt with prose that reads like a shttered mirror..one thousand shards of truth scattered on the hard boiled floor of a junkyard, strip club, playground world...Nesbitt is part poet, part badass Chester Himes, part howling Invisble Man...ie..the real deal...he reads like Evader Holyfield fights, a brawling style that sucks you in...While some think that his stories lack plot I would say that the highspeed existence of the modern age is a blur and Nesbitt captures it in rare fragments, diamond like moments...it is fiction for a new century...

Blistering and ultimately cathartic

The stories in _Gigantic_ are both hyperkinetic and hyperbolic, often taking an absurdist premise and teasing out the implications. Nesbitt has a keen ear for dialogue and a killer instinct for using metaphors. The opening story, "The Ones Who May Kill You in the Morning" is a perfect example--it has a visceral final image that crystallizes in a few sentences explicitly everything that was implicit in the story beforehand. It's one of those moments where you put the book down and let everything sink in for a few minutes. I really can't recommend these stories enough--in the end, they are incredibly moving _because_ of the way Nesbitt plays fast and loose with the countours of reality, not despite it. In the last 10 years there has been an oatmealy sea of sameness in literary fiction--but unconventional, authentic writers like Nesbitt give hope for the future. A _lot_ of hope.

This book rocks!

Nesbitt writes sentences so original and beautiful you'll swear he's reinventing the language. That, and the compassion he has for his hardluck characters, make this book a stunner.