{"product_id":"the-star-caf-9780385552349","title":"The Star Café","description":"\u003cb\u003eA daring debut that captures “elegant depictions of lives and places…full of the quiet power…of a fever dream” (\u003ci\u003eThe Los Angeles Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMary Caponegro’s \u003ci\u003eThe Star Café\u003c\/i\u003e is a bold and original collection that explores how we experience the world through language, through the body, and through our relationships with others.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcross three stories and a novella, Caponegro examines the unstable terrain of sexuality and identity. In “Materia Prima,” a young girl navigates her first encounters with speech and desire; the title story follows Carol, drawn into a disorienting sexual encounter in a mirrored space where her own body is endlessly reflected back to her, forcing a confrontation with the strange, often absurd logic of desire; the collection culminates in “Sebastian,” a novella that traces a single unsettled day in the life of a man in a mercurial romantic relationship that disrupts his need for order to devastating effects. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt once intimate and formally adventurous, \u003ci\u003eThe Star Café \u003c\/i\u003etransforms familiar experiences into something newly strange and electric, marking the emergence of a singular and fearless literary voice.","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"STANDARD","offer_id":67625559589254,"sku":"9780385552349","price":22.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0907\/8456\/3587\/files\/9780385552349.jpg?v=1791989356","url":"https:\/\/shopcomics.eu\/products\/the-star-caf-9780385552349","provider":"Shop Comics EU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}