{"product_id":"but-tell-it-slant-fierce-fictions-9798218669058","title":"But Tell It Slant: Fierce Fictions","description":"\u003cp\u003eMatt Pavelich's stories wait quietly for a reader to discover them, and once they do-drawn in no doubt through a mesmerizing opening line or through seeing newly captured even the most mundane and familiar elements in our lives-they will keep turning pages, unaware of anything else around them until the reverie is broken by impending darkness, and they have to stand up to turn on a lamp so as to keep reading. From the moment he first appeared on the literary horizon with his Montana Book Award-winning story collection, Beasts of the Forest, Beasts of the Field in 1989, Pavelich has distinguished himself as a master of the form, penning story after story (and a few novels along the way) to remind discriminating readers what honest, organic wordsmithing looks like. Absent any of the lingering electronic glow of the writing factories, Pavelich's stories gleam like embers in a woodstove; the odors of larch smoke and oranges cling to them the way that true insight comes from hiking alone over the continental divide, or sewing a quilt, or chopping cordwood. If you want to remember what well crafted writing used to mean, get a copy of \u003cem\u003eBut Tell It Slant\u003c\/em\u003e. Actually, get two copies and pass one along to any reader with taste; you'll have a friend for life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAaron Parrett\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAuthor, \u003cem\u003eMontana Then and Now\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePavelich, Matt:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Matt Pavelich was born on the Flathead Indian Reservation. He is not native American. On the ranch where he was raised, his were mostly urban interests, but country manners followed him to town and through a lengthy education that further confused the issue. He was a pacifist in the Marine Corps, then a day laborer who never successfully paired a strong back with a strong mind. He has been a bad pilot and a peculiar lawyer. He is a thrice-married bachelor. While it seems this tendency to be a poor fit has served him pretty poorly, it does have its uses for Pavelich the writer. He belongs only to his craft and the rich murk of thought and sensation he might stir with it. Standing outside, Pavelich is constantly discovering in his work how he stands there, outside, with nearly all of humanity. The attention he lavishes on the rhythm, timbre, and pace of his language was evident from his earliest published stories, Beasts of the Forest, Beasts of the Field. Pavelich uses musicality to serve up constantly shifting moods. In the novel, Our Savage, he dared to occupy as a fictionist times, situations, and personalities he might only research in his imagination; thus the story of a giant, told in naturalistic terms, making his way from the court of the Holy Roman Empire to a Wyoming coal camp. In The Other Shoe, Pavelich walks a cast of innocents painfully through his musings on justice. In Survivors Said the people of his stories do just that, survive, an often mixed blessing.For Pavelich, it seems, the purpose of life is life itself, and perhaps a song to properly sing it.","brand":"Bar R Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51735728062738,"sku":"9798218669058","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_fcb5463c-1f25-4c3e-8084-f4a3e3f3d3c6.jpg?v=1763542792","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/but-tell-it-slant-fierce-fictions-9798218669058","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}