The Bigness of the World
Stories by Lori Ostlund
~Winner of the 79th California Book Award for First Fiction and the Edmund White Debut Fiction Award
~Chosen a 2009 Notable Book by The Story Prize
“This is a book to remake our imaginary landscape—the kind of book I not only recommend, I advocate. Read this, I want to tell people. You need these stories. You do.”
—Dorothy Allison, author of Bastard Out of Carolina and Trash“Each piece is sublime.”
–Publishers Weekly (starred review)
In the eleven stories in The Bigness of the World we see that wherever you are in the world, where you came from is never far away.
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News
June 25th, 2010: An interview with me Read More
May 6th, 2010: Last week, I was thrilled to learn that THE BIGNESS OF THE WORLD made it onto the shortlist Read More
May 6th, 2010: On April 29, at a ceremony in New York that I was not able to attend, THE BIGNESS OF THE WORLD received Read More
April 29th, 2010: The Frank O’Connor International Short Story Prize recently announced its longlist of 57 collections from Read More
April 29th, 2010: On Tuesday, April 20th, I learned that BIGNESS was chosen as the Gold Medal winner Read More
