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Maggie Brown & others

Summary:

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, 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.

Record details

ISBN: 9780316516112
ISBN: 0316516112
Physical Description: ix, 322 pages ; 25 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2019.
Copyright: ©2019

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

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.