num_pages: 208
description: 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 Peter Orner presents a kaleidoscope of individual lives viewed in intimate close-up. A woman's husband dies before their divorce is finalized; a man runs for governor and loses much more than the election; two brothers play beneath the infamous bridge at Chappaquiddick; a father and daughter outrun a hurricane--all are vivid and memorable occasions as seen through Orner's eyes. Last Car Over The Sagamore Bridge is also a return to the form Orner loves best. As he has written The difference between a short story and a novel is the difference between a pang in your heart and the tragedy of your whole life. Read a great story and there it is--right now--in your gut.Foley's PondOccidental HotelSpokaneThe poetHerb and Rosalie Swanson at the Cocoanut GroveMy old boss E.J. once told me he was famous for goofy hatsAt the kitchen tableGrand Pacific Hotel Chicago 1875Railroad Men's HomePlaza Revolucin Mexico City 6 a.mHorace and JosephineI was six maybe seven months oldPampkin's lamentLincolnLast car over the Sagamore BridgeNathan Leopold writes to Mr. Felix Kleczka of 5383 S. BlackstoneAt the end of our street was a commune in a log mansionDetambleDyke BridgeThe mayor's dreamFourteen-year-olds Indiana Dunes late afternoonDenny Coughlin: in memoryThe divorce1979The Vac-HaulThe time I said it was only an emotional affairAt the FairmontRoman morningEisendrathWoman in a Dubrovnik CafReverend Hrncirik receives an airmail packageCall these meditations of an overweight junior lifeguardWaukegan storyLubyanka Prison Moscow 1940February 26 1995Late dusk Joslin IllinoisWaldheimRentersOn the 14LongfellowPaddy Bauler in a quiet momentGeraldo 1986Harold Washington walks at midnightFrom the collected stories of Edmund Jerry (E.J.) Hahn Vol. IVThe gateA couple of years before I was bornMy mother stands by the windowIt may have been in The Wapshot ChronicleThe moors of ChicagoBelief 1999Irv Pincus used to steal lamps from Kaplan's FurnitureShhhhhh Arthur's studying
language: English
title: Last Car Over the Sagamore Bridge: Stories
publisher: Little, Brown and Company