The Alibi Café: and Other Stories

by Mary Troy

Fiction. "What virtually all the characters share is a profound sense of ironic detachment that keeps the world at a protective remove. Although Mary Troy could portray them merely as hapless losers, she wisely chooses to let us glimpse the resignation behind their struggles"— New York Times Book Review .

139 pages, Paperback

First published May 12, 2003

About the author

Mary Troy is the author of six books of fiction––four collections of short stories and two novels: In The Sky Lord, Swimming on Hwy N, Beauties, Cookie Lily, The Alibi Cafe and Other Stories, and Joe Baker Is Dead. She has won the Leila Lenora Heasley Award for a distinguished representative of American and international letters, the USA Book Award for literary fiction, the Devil’s Kitchen Reading Award, a Nelson Algren Award, a William Rockhill Nelson Award, and more. Mary has published dozens of short stories, and her books have been reviewed widely and well, including in the New York Times Sunday Book Review.