Maggie Brown & Others: Stories by Peter Orner
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Overview: In this powerful and virtuosic collection of interlocking stories, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist takes the form to new heights.
In his orchestral and moving new book, Peter Orner, a writer who "doesn’t simply bring his characters to life, he gives them souls" (New York Times Book Review), chronicles people whose lives are at inflection points. In forty-four compressed gems, he grips us with a series of defining moments. Whether it’s a first date that turns into a late-night road trip to a séance in an abandoned airplane hangar, or a family’s memories of the painful mystery surrounding a forgotten uncle’s demise, Orner reveals how our fleeting decisions between kindness and abandonment chase us across time. These stories are anchored by a poignant novella that delivers not only the joys and travails of a forty-year marriage, but an entire era in small-town New England.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics > Short Stories
I: Come Back to California
The Deer
Fowlers Lake
Tomales Bay (Emily)
Naked Man Hides
Reach
The Case Against Bobbie
An Old Poet Is Dying in Bolinas
Pacific
The Going Away Party
On the Floor, Beside the Bed
Stinson Beach, 2013
Above Santa Cruz
The Apartment
II: Lighted Windows
The Return
Two Lawyers
Padanaram
My Dead
Untitled
Maggie Brown
The Roommate
Allston
Ineffectual Tribute to Len
III: Crimes of Opportunity; or, The 1980s
Speech at the Urinal, Drake Hotel, Chicago, December 1980
Visions of Mr. Swibel
The Laundry Room
Miami Beach, 1961
The Language of That Year
Crimes of Opportunity
In the Lobby
1984
The Captain
Solly
IV: Castaways
Erwin and Pauline
Do You Have Enough Light?
Uncle Norm Reads Spinoza as His Cookie Business Collapses Due to the Rise in Sugar Prices in the Dominican Republic
Bernard: A Character Study
Fall River Wife
V: Renters: A Sequence
Rhinebeck
Historians
Montreal
Other Nights
The TV Room
Evergreen Garden, San Francisco, 2012
Strand
VI: Walt Kaplan Is Broke: A Novella
1: Truesdale Hospital: Fall River, Massachusetts, July 21, 1977
2: August, Bedroom
3: Gus’s Highland Spa
4: Gang Plank (at the Cove)
5: Garbage Day
6: The Jaffe Girl
7: Gus’s Highland Spa
8: A Single Chair
9: TLAW Packaging
10: Massachusetts v. Rhode Island
11: Rachel Plotkin
12: Notes on Practical Salesmanship
13: Gus’s Highland Spa
14: Agudas Achim
15: Kaplans
16: Dumb Luck, Brief Treatise
17: The Woman at the Alhambra
18: His Mother
19: Beth El Temple Notes, October 8, 1939
20: Miriam’s Egg Experiment
21: His Scar
22: To the Dark
23: Kaplan’s Furniture, Fourth and Pleasant Street, March 1961
24: Moonlight
25: Walt’s Spending Diary, March 15, 1978
26: The Life Jacket
27: Statistics
28: Beth El
29: 100 Delcar Street
30: Sarah
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