Description
"Mary Caponegro is one of the most imaginative, daring, serious adn playful writers alive. All Fall Down is her best book yet.-Jonathan Safran Foer "Mary Caponegro's headlong tales chronicle our generation's internal trajectories; she's robust, crude, drop-dead funny, tender, and heartbreaking as she navigates the tragicomedy of our middle age. She goes straight to the bottom of sex, love, romance, and all their travesties. The way David Foster Wallace used and claimed and forever changed footnotes, Caponegro has branded parentheses. She charts the 'oldly-wed game' of the long married using 'not a laugh but a cry-track.' Playful, but never shirking, Caponegro's stories are a deep balm."-Mona Simpson In two novellas and four shorter tales of love and healing gone awry, we meet caregivers and lovers, muses and skydivers, mothers and minors-all headed toward "ninety mile-an-hour psychic crashes euphemistically referred to as epiphanies." As William Gass says, "The music of Mary Caponegro's stories is to the mouth what wine is." And through exuberant lyricism, remarkable characterization, and settings as elaborately detailed as any in Hollywood, these dramas of failure, resilience, and transformation linger long after the wine is gone. The author of The Star Cafe, Five Doubts, and The Complexities of Intimacy, Mary Caponegro lives in the Hudson Valley and teaches at Bard College.
1. Large galley printing. 2. Additional marketing will include featuring the book at BEA and at academic conferences, like MLA and AWP. 3. Our publicity efforts will focus on major literary publications, like The New Yorker, Bookforum, and the New York Review of Books, along with women's magazines, and bloggers. 4. Mary Caponegro will be making some appearances with another Coffee House spring author, Brian Evenson. The two of them should help generate even better tour-related pr than usual.
About the Author
Mary Caponegro's story collections include The Star Cafe and The Complexities of Intimacy. Her stories have been anthologized in The Anchor Book of New American Fiction, The Italian American Reader, and Wild Dreams: The Best of Italian Americana. Born in Brooklyn, she has lived in Italy and now resides in the Hudson Valley where she teaches at Bard College.
Book Information
ISBN 9781566892261
Author Mary Caponegro
Format Paperback
Page Count 224
Imprint Coffee House Press
Publisher Coffee House Press
Weight(grams) 297g
Dimensions(mm) 231mm * 154mm * 15mm
1. Large galley printing. 2. Additional marketing will include featuring the book at BEA and at academic conferences, like MLA and AWP. 3. Our publicity efforts will focus on major literary publications, like The New Yorker, Bookforum, and the New York Review of Books, along with women's magazines, and bloggers. 4. Mary Caponegro will be making some appearances with another Coffee House spring author, Brian Evenson. The two of them should help generate even better tour-related pr than usual.
About the Author
Mary Caponegro's story collections include The Star Cafe and The Complexities of Intimacy. Her stories have been anthologized in The Anchor Book of New American Fiction, The Italian American Reader, and Wild Dreams: The Best of Italian Americana. Born in Brooklyn, she has lived in Italy and now resides in the Hudson Valley where she teaches at Bard College.
Book Information
ISBN 9781566892261
Author Mary Caponegro
Format Paperback
Page Count 224
Imprint Coffee House Press
Publisher Coffee House Press
Weight(grams) 297g
Dimensions(mm) 231mm * 154mm * 15mm
