The Star Café and Other Stories

By Mary Caponegro

Book Overview

In these exquisite stores, Mary Caponegro is challenging the way we think about language, about sexuality, and even about thinking. She is one of a group of writers who have exploded the boundaries of the short story. Mary Caponegro is the winner of the General Electric Younger Writers Award and the 1991 Rome Prize for Literature.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393307913
• ISBN13: 9780393307917
• Release Date: August 1991
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Enchanting

I first read this wonderful collection maybe 5 years ago, and I still quote from it in conversation with friends. Caponegro has drawn such wonderfully immediate characters who inhabit a space of mind that resonates in dreamtime. A book to be experienced and savored. You will never be able to think of Jaguars (the car) quite the same way again!

Fiction of Irrealism

Caponegro's book contains a nice mixture of real and unreal, or perhaps 'irreal.' Especially effective are the title story and 'Sebastian.' Humorous and thoughtful: one of the best new voices in literature. (And this isn't just because she taught me in college...)

Makes Me Think Of

Laura Riding, if she were a dude.

Wonderful piece of work

I was exposed to Ms. Caponegro's work thanks to the wonderful book, "You've Got To Read This!", where writers share stories by other writers that inspired or moved them. The Star Cafe is a dazzling display of human mental interplay and inner mental workings. I greatly enjoyed it.