Last Car Over the Sagamore Bridge by Orner, Peter -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title Page Welcome Dedication Epigraph Part I: Survivors

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 Revolución, 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

Part II: The Normal

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

Part III: In Moscow Everything Will Be Different

The time I said it was only an emotional affair At the Fairmont Roman Morning Eisendrath Woman in a Dubrovnik Café Reverend Hrncirik Receives an Airmail Package Call these the meditations of an overweight junior lifeguard Waukegan Story Lubyanka Prison, Moscow, 1940 February 26, 1995 Late Dusk, Joslin, Illinois

Part IV: Country of Us

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 Shhhhhh, Arthur’s Studying

Acknowledgments Also by Peter Orner Praise for Peter Orner’s "Last Car Over the Sagamore Bridge" Reading Group Guide

A Conversation with Peter Orner Questions and Topics for Discussion

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