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Last Car Over the Sagamore Bridge by Orner, Peter is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Last Car Over the Sagamore Bridge about?

The long-awaited second collection of stories from a writer whose first was hailed as "one of the best story collections of the last decade" (Kevin Brockmeier).In Last Car Over the Sagamore Bridge, PeterOrner zeroes in on the strange ways our memories define us: A woman's husband dies before their divorce is finalized; a man runs for governor of Illinois and loses much more than an election; two brothers play beneath the infamous bridge at Chappaquiddick. Employing the masterful compression for which he's become known, Orner presents a kaleidoscope of individual lives viewed in startling, intimate close-up. Whether writing of Geraldo Rivera's attempt to reveal the contents of Al Capone's vault or of a father and daughter trying to outrun a hurricane, he illuminates universal themes. In stories that span considerable geographic ground-from Chicago to Wyoming, from Massachusetts to the Czech Republic-he writes of the past we can't seem to...

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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.

Author
Orner, Peter
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Published
2013
Language
EN
ISBN
9780316224635
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Fiction, Short Stories, Literary Fiction
Rating
3.62 / 5 (306 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-13

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