Maggie Brown & others: stories

✍ Scribed by Peter Orner

• Book ID: 100645520
• Publisher: Little, Brown and Company; Lee Boudreaux Books
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 176 KB
• Category: Fiction
• City: New York
• ISBN: 0316419311

✦ Synopsis

In this powerful and virtuosic collection of interlocking stories, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist takes the form to new heights.In his orchestral and moving new book, Peter Orner, a writer who "doesn't simply bring his characters to life, he gives them souls" (New York Times Book Review), 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. These stories are anchored by a poignant novella that delivers not only the joys and travails of a forty-year marriage, but an entire era in small-town New England. Bristling with the crackling energy of life itself, Maggie Brown & Others marks the most sustained achievement to date for "a master of his form" (New York Times).

✦ Subjects

Interpersonal relations -- Fiction