Maggie Brown & others

In his orchestral and moving new book, Peter Orner ... 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,...

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Main Author: Orner, Peter (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2019.
Edition:First edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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
  • Lighted windows. The return
  • Two lawyers
  • Padanaram
  • My dead
  • Untitled
  • Maggie Brown
  • The roommate
  • Allston
  • Ineffectual tribute to Len
  • 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
  • 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
  • Renters: a sequence. Rhinebeck
  • Historians
  • Montreal
  • Other nights
  • The TV room
  • Evergreen Garden, San Francisco, 2012
  • Strand
  • Walt Kaplan is broke : a novella.