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"I've always followed my father's advice: he told me, first to always keep my word and, second, to never insult anybody unintentionally. If I insult you, you can be goddamn sure I intend to. And, third, he told me not to go around looking for trouble."
- John Wayne
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
ISBN: 0618128735
Release Date: Jan 11, 2001
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Peter Orner explores the impact of life's essential moments, those brief but far-reaching occasions that haunt his characters. The discovery of a crime, a theatrical performance in a small town, or the recollection of a cruel wartime decision are equally affecting in Orner's vivid scenarios. Esther Stories is divided into four distinct parts, each with its own momentum. The first half of the book concerns the lives of unrelated strangers, and the second introduces two Jewish families, one on the East Coast, the other in the Midwest.These stories cover considerable geographic ground — from Nova Scotia to Mississippi, from Fall River, Massachusetts, to Chicago — but the real territory is emotional. As the narrator of the title story tries to piece together his late aunt Esther's life from the fragments of stories told about her, he remembers what she told him in a dark kitchen when he was a child: "You pay for everything. When you think you're getting something for free — remember this — you'll pay later." All thirty-two wide-ranging pieces — funny or sorrowful, urban or rural, simple or innovative — are welcome additions to the art of the story.
Author Biography: Peter Orner was born in Chicago and spent time in Africa with a Harvard program as a student. He attended the University of Michigan and graduated from Northwestern in 1990. He holds both an MFA from the University of Iowa and a degree in law. He served as a public defender in Massachusetts and currently teaches law in Prague. He will return to the States in July of 2000 to teach in the creative writing program at Miami University of Ohio. Orner's stories have appeared in the AtlanticMonthly, North American Review, Epoch, Denver Quarterly, Michigan Quarterly Review, and other periodicals.
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| | | | | | The Reader's Catalog
A debut collection of short stories divided into two parts and four sections. The first half chronicles the connected experiences of a small set of strangers. The second, two Jewish families living on opposite sides of the country. "Orner doesn't simply bring his characters to life, he gives them souls" — Margot Livesey, New York Times
| |  | | | | Initials Etched on a Dining-Room Table, Lockeport, Nova Scotia | 3 | | Thumbs | 6 | | In the Walls | 14 | | Early November | 17 | | Pile of Clothes | 19 | | Papa Gino's | 26 | | On a Bridge over the Homochitto | 30 | | Cousin Tuck's | 37 | | Two Poes | 46 | | Shoe Story | 56 | | Thursday Night at the Gopher Hole, April 1992 | 58 | | County Road G | 66 | | At the Motel Rainbow | 70 | | Sitting Theodore | 81 | | At Horseneck Beach | 93 | | Sarah | 94 | | Walt Kaplan Reads Hiroshima, March 1947 | 97 | | Melba Kuperschmid Returns | 104 | | Birth of a Son-in-Law | 113 | | At the Conrad Hilton | 118 | | Awnings, Bedspreads, Combed Yarns | 124 | | High Priest at the Gates | 131 | | In the Dark | 133 | | Atlantic City | 136 | | Providence | 140 | | Michigan City, Indiana | 153 | | The Raft | 155 | | The House on Lunt Avenue | 160 | | Daughters | 170 | | My Father in an Elevator with Anita Fanska, August 1976 | 179 | | Seymour | 182 | | The Moraine on the Lake | 184 | | Esther Stories | 186 | | The Waters | 217 | | Acknowledgments | 229 |
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