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The Big Sandy

The Big Sandy

McEwen, R. F.

Paperback

General Juvenile Fiction

ISBN10: 1622882466
ISBN13: 9781622882465
Publisher: Stephen F. Austin University Press
Published: May 21 2026
Pages: 140
Weight: 0.88
Height: 0.64 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

R.F. McEwen's The Big Sandy is a splendid imaginative feat that calls to mind the work of three Irish masters: Sterne, Joyce, and Beckett. Like the best literary novels, The Big Sandy is both highly allusive and hugely engaging. While encased in a thoroughly-destroyed Plymouth Fury (read: Michael Fury, an invisible yet ever-present character in Joyce's The Dead) in the heart of Nebraska's Sandhills, McEwen's hapless duo survive by inventing an imaginary landscape and a peopled world that draws on Ireland and America. Linguistically, The Big Sandy occupies a space between both countries while absorbing from both. McEwen's heroes, Jodey and Flann, resemble Beckett's Vladimir and Estragon-they are trapped and hoping for deliverance. At the same time, both men are caught inside their own narratives: McEwen reminds us that all lives are stories and that most storytellers report unreliably on their own lives. The Big Sandy, a most-exciting genre defying novel/drama, is the work of a master storyteller.

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