
Cafe Purgatorio
Frederick Mark Kramer(Author)
Sagging Meniscus Press
Published on 15. August 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
246 pages
978-1-952386-58-9 (ISBN)
Description
At the funeral of his old friend Jeff, who has committed suicide, Simeon, a poet in New York City, reencounters his old lover Liliana, who had also been Jeff's girlfriend and whom he has not seen for thirty years. Over drinks at the bar of the nearby Café Purgatorio, a long conversation ensues, trying to make sense of their three youths and what followed from them, again and again twisting together and pulling apart the circular trail of their steps and missteps. The more obsessively these weltering stories deflect "the one deep thought"-which, perhaps, it finally faces in an unforgettable, heartbreaking revelation-the more it suggests a luminous ground independent of their struggles and regrets.Café Purgatorio is a love song to life: its aspirations, falling-shorts, and haunting losses. It is also an intimate, moonlit portrait of New York City itself in its beauty, its humanity, and its terror.
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Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 148 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
362 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-952386-58-9 (9781952386589)
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