{"product_id":"all-fall-down-9781566892261","title":"All Fall Down","description":"\u003cp\u003eMary Caponegro is one of the most imaginative, daring, serious adn playful writers alive. \u003cb\u003eAll Fall Down\u003c\/b\u003e is her best book yet.--Jonathan Safran Foer\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMary 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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe author of \u003ci\u003eThe Star Caf \u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFive Doubts\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Complexities of Intimacy\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003cb\u003eMary Caponegro\u003c\/b\u003e lives in the Hudson Valley and teaches at Bard College.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Coffee House Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/01\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781566892261\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 214\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eCommonweal\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/04\/2009 pg. 24\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublisher's Weekly Annex\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/13\/2009\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Mary Caponegro","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42487281025205,"sku":"9781566892261","price":12.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_d748bfc3-cdda-47b6-8350-65bb55359d75.jpg?v=1667314982","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/all-fall-down-9781566892261","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}