Mary Caponegro, Author . Coffee House $14.95 (233p) ISBN 978-1-56689-120-2
At once visceral and cerebral, Caponegro's latest, aptly titled collection (after The Star Café; Five Doubts) explores domesticity in a series of five stories that are likely to bewilder more readers than they will delight. The first story,
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Mary Caponegro, Author Scribner Book Company $17.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-684-19113-3
Though uneven, this collection of three short stories and a novella nonetheless marks the arrival of a gifted writer. In the stories, which have appeared previously in a small press edition and in literary magazines, the author's ambition...
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Mary Caponegro, Author W. W. Norton & Company $8.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-393-30791-7
``Sebastian,'' a quirky novella, outshines the three stories in this collection--a Chinese fable ``ultimately jejune and Western in its effects''; the tale of a college coed's seduction; and a coming-of-age melodrama. ``In the stories . . . the...
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Mary Caponegro, Author Coffee House Press $14.95 (214p) ISBN 978-1-56689-226-1
In her latest collection, experimental fiction writer Caponegro (The Complexities of Intimacy) continues to push linguistic complexity and surreal elements through six stories about relationships under strain. Opener ""Last Resort Retreat"" portrays
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Joseph Cornell, Author, John Burghardt, Author, Mary Caponegro, Author Bianco & Cucco $27.5 (160p) ISBN 978-1-891024-22-1
When he was still a college student, Jonathan Safran Foer began writing to famous poets and writers, asking them to create original poetry and fiction based on the diorama-like Bird Boxes of collage artist Joseph Cornell. Twenty writers and poets
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