Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Big It and Other Stories | 1972 | A.B. Guthrie, Jr. | Buy |
The Big It and Other Stories (1972) is a short story collection by A.B. Guthrie, Jr., the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Way West and The Big Sky. The collection gathers shorter fiction from an author best known for his novels about the American frontier and the settling of the West.
Guthrie won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1950 and also wrote the screenplay for the 1953 film Shane. His fiction is rooted in the landscapes and people of Montana and the American West, and the stories in this collection reflect those same concerns. The title story, “The Big It,” is among his most recognized shorter works.
This collection offers a way to experience Guthrie’s prose in smaller doses. For readers who know him only through his novels, these stories provide a different window into his writing about life in the American West.