Red Light Run, Baird Harper
Red Light Run, Baird Harper
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Red Light Run
Linked Stories

Author: Baird Harper

Narrator: Charles Carroll

Unabridged: 6 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/08/2017

Synopsis

When Sonia, the prominent wife of a local cemetery owner, is killed in the worst accident anyone can remember, Hartley Nolan, a lifelong teetotaler, is hardly the person that police expect to find behind the wheel. After all, Hartley is something of an inspiration in a town that hasn't seen much luck in decades-he's the local boy who made it big in Chicago without ever forgetting his struggling family back home. But Tower Hill, Illinois, is a close-knit community that's alive with old rivalries, making it fertile ground for resentments. With Hartley up for parole four years after his arrest, an old friend of Sonia's decides to take justice into his own hands. Set in the days leading up to Sonia's death and those surrounding Hartley's release from prison, Baird Harper's linked stories brilliantly unravel the mystery behind the town's most notorious crime and examine how far its residents will go to rectify it.

About Baird Harper

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Linda on September 01, 2017

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

Goodreads review by Carla on February 01, 2018

The synopsis (on Goodreads) is a gross exaggeration. The last few chapters were incomprehensible, at least to me.......more

Goodreads review by Steve on September 12, 2017

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

Goodreads review by Nathalie on September 02, 2017

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

Goodreads review by Alex on August 08, 2017

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

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