

Red Light Run
Linked Stories
Author: Baird Harper
Narrator: Charles Carroll
Unabridged: 6 hr 21 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Dreamscape Media
Published: 08/08/2017
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction
Author: Baird Harper
Narrator: Charles Carroll
Unabridged: 6 hr 21 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Dreamscape Media
Published: 08/08/2017
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction
Baird Harper is best known as a writer of short stories. His fiction has appeared in publications such as Glimmer Train, Tin House, and The Chicago Tribune as well as anthologies such as New Stories from the Midwest, 40 Years of CutBank, and Best New American Voices. The recipient of the 2014 Raymond Carver Award for Short Fiction, the Chicago Tribune's Nelson Algren Award, and the James Jones Short Story Award, he also teaches creative writing.
After spending four years in prison for vehicular manslaughter, Hartley Nolan is released and back at home with his parents and his wife. Supposedly he was driving drunk when involved in a car accident and where the wife of a prominent resident was killed. But she had been racing from another town t......more
The synopsis (on Goodreads) is a gross exaggeration. The last few chapters were incomprehensible, at least to me.......more
I love characters who make bad decisions. If literary fiction aspires to presenting some unique condition of humanity that is grounded in a common reality, then character flaws are of paramount importance. Yet, characters who make bad decisions don't have to be unlikable. In fact, it's those moments......more
Baird Harper est nouvelliste, il a d'ailleurs été récompensé par le prix Raymond Carver en 2014 . Il enseigne l'écriture à l'université Loyola à Chicago. Il nous propose ici son premier roman. Bello se rend à la prison de Grassland près de Chicago car c'est aujourd'hui qu'est prévue la sortie d'Hartl......more
Run Light Run is a novel presented as a series of interconnected stories, mostly radiating from one central event; the running of a red light. As a whole, this is a well written exploration of family drama set in a suburb of Chicago. I enjoy when situations are examined from various view points and......more