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Peter Orner

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Peter Orner was born in Chicago and is the author of three novels: Esther Stories (Houghton Mifflin, 2001), The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo (Little, Brown, 2006), and his most recent, Love and Shame and Love (Little, Brown, 2011) which was recently called epic by Daniel Handler, "...epic like Gilgamesh, epic like a guitar solo." (Orner has since bought Gilgamesh and is enjoying it.) Love and Shame and Love is illustrated throughout by his brother Eric Orner, a comic artist and illustrator whose long time independent/​alt weekly strip The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green was made into a feature film in 2008. Eric Orner's work is featured this year in Best American Cartoons edited by Alison Bechdel.

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Average rating: 3.85 · 671 ratings · 180 reviews · 11 distinct works
Love and Shame and Love
3.43 of 5 stars 3.43 avg rating — 202 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions
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Esther Stories
4.1 of 5 stars 4.10 avg rating — 147 ratings — published 2001 — 3 editions
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The Second Coming of Mavala...
3.82 of 5 stars 3.82 avg rating — 184 ratings — published 2006 — 4 editions
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Un Solo Tipo Di Vento
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2008
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date: December 13, 2011 07:00PM
location: The Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd, Corte Madera, CA, The United States
description: Peter Orner discusses his novel Love and Shame and Love. Alexander Popper is four years old when his father throws him into Lake Michigan, telling him to sink or swim. The rest of the family also struggles to stay afloat. Covering four decades of Alexander’s life, from childhood to romance to unexpected fatherhood, Orner illuminates the intricacies of love and shame that sometimes follows.
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