Last Car Over the Sagamore Bridge Author:Peter Orner 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 f... more »inalized; 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 Pond
Occidental Hotel
Spokane
The poet
Herb and Rosalie Swanson at the Cocoanut Grove
My old boss E.J. once told me he was famous for goofy hats
At the kitchen table
Grand Pacific Hotel, Chicago, 1875
Railroad Men's Home
Plaza RevolucioÌn, Mexico City, 6 a.m
Horace and Josephine
I was six, maybe seven months old
Pampkin's lament
Lincoln
Last car over the Sagamore Bridge
Nathan Leopold writes to Mr. Felix Kleczka of 5383 S. Blackstone
At the end of our street was a commune in a log mansion
Detamble
Dyke Bridge
The mayor's dream
Fourteen-year-olds, Indiana Dunes, late afternoon
Denny Coughlin: in memory
The divorce
1979
The Vac-Haul
The time I said it was only an emotional affair
At the Fairmont
Roman morning
Eisendrath
Woman in a Dubrovnik CafeÌ
Reverend Hrncirik receives an airmail package
Call these meditations of an overweight junior lifeguard
Waukegan story
Lubyanka Prison, Moscow, 1940
February 26, 1995
Late dusk, Joslin, Illinois
Waldheim
Renters
On the 14
Longfellow
Paddy Bauler in a quiet moment
Geraldo, 1986
Harold Washington walks at midnight
From the collected stories of Edmund Jerry (E.J.) Hahn, Vol. IV
The gate
A couple of years before I was born
My mother stands by the window
It may have been in The Wapshot Chronicle
The moors of Chicago
Belief, 1999
Irv Pincus used to steal lamps from Kaplan's Furniture