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Esther Stories von Orner, Peter
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- Book Title
- Esther Stories
- Item Length
- 8.2 in
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
- Publication Year
- 2001
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.7 in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Short Stories (Single Author), Jewish
- Item Width
- 5.5 in
- Item Weight
- 9.9 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 240 Pages
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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.
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
ISBN-10
0618128735
ISBN-13
9780618128730
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1954501
Product Key Features
Book Title
Esther Stories
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Short Stories (Single Author), Jewish
Publication Year
2001
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Item Weight
9.9 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ps3615.R58e88 2001
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The skillful deployment of history and geography has much to do with the success of Esther Stories , but all would be in vain were it not for Orner's mastery of language. He moves, seemingly effortlessly, between plain speech and more elevated diction, between short, flat sentences and sinuous, long ones. Best of all, Orner is a true democrat. Most of his characters struggle to hang onto even one of the fundamental rights life, love, the pursuit of happiness but every character, young or old, well-to-do or broke, maimed or whole, is worthy of the author's insight and eloquence., Innovative, original and fresh as a breath of perfumed summer air, these 34 stories capture pure emotion so vividly they tremble with contained life. Orner, who was published in The Best American Short Stories 2001 and has received a Pushcart Prize, creates characters so real that readers sense they could not only recognize them on the street, but also see into their troubled hearts. The tales collected here cover a lot of geographical ground - one group is set in Fall River, Mass., others in Chicago, while some veer away as far as Nova Scotia and Mississippi - but Orner teaches us that people everywhere share the same sorrows and joys. "Cousin Tuck's" is a heartbreaking tale of two misfits, Tito and Nadine, who find each other again. "[S]ome nights he'd take her home. Most guys gave him no grief - hell, a warm body's a warm body. In Boston in February, there's guys who sleep with frozen squirrel corpses." In "Atlantic City," a nurse comes home at lunch to find her husband dead and can remember him only on the beach in Atlantic City years before, in an almost unbearably bittersweet reverie. In the even shorter "Shoe Story," which is reminiscent of the late Richard Brautigan, a man recalls a overheard long ago, which ended with a woman throwing a pair of shoes out of the window into the street just by his restaurant table. "[T]hose shoes were angels dispatched to rescue ourselves from our own grease-soaked and burbling-over hearts." This extraordinarily fine collection should establish Orner as a new star of American short fiction. Author tour. (Nov. 2). Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc. , This affecting debut collection presents 34 stories, many no more than a page or two long, that span America. Though the physical territory covered is broad, the emotional probing of the characters is the high point here. The book is divided into four parts: the first two concern the lives of unrelated strangers; the last two present two assimilated Jewish families, one on the East Coast, the other in the Midwest. In the title story, the narrator tries to form a picture of his dead Aunt Esther with fragments of anecdotes: "I study an old high school picture of Esther and find it difficult to believe that the portly, angry, hollow-eyed woman who lived in my grandparents' basement throughout the 1980s is this person who looks so much like Elizabeth Taylor in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof: seductive, sweaty, a little nasty, a little pouty." Recommended for most libraries. Molly Abramowitz, Silver Spring, MD Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Table of Content
Contents 1. What Remains 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 2. The Famous 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 3. fall river marriage 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 4. The Waters 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
Copyright Date
2001
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2001-024991
Dewey Decimal
Fic
Dewey Edition
21
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