num_pages: 231
description: In 1960s Greenwich Village, Joanna tries to understand Tom, a free-spirited painter who despite his remembered feelings of loneliness and dislocation after his father left the family, has abandoned his own two children. (Nancy Pearl)
language: English
title: In the Night Cafe
titlecomplete: In the Night Cafe
genres: 20th Century, New York, Literary Fiction, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 170
awards: awardedAt: 536486400000
name: O. Henry Award
publisher: Dutton