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 seĢance in an abandoned airplane hangar,... Full description
- 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.