Official Trailer: Love and Shame and Love

Watch the book trailer for Peter Orner's highly anticipated third novel, "Love and Shame and Love," out November 2011.

Directed by Rob Jones and edited by Oren Sarch.

Excerpts of this trailer are from the upcoming film The Raft, starring Edward Asner.

Covering four generations of the Popper family, Peter Orner illuminates the countless ways that love both makes us whole and completely unravels us. Alternately comic and sorrowful, LOVE AND SHAME AND LOVE: A Novel explores the universals with stunning originality and wisdom.

"Love and Shame and Love is an epic book—epic like Gilgamesh and epic like a guitar solo." -- Daniel Handler

This is a big, smart, generous, important novel." Antonya Nelson

"Auden said that art is born of humiliation, which seems an ideal place to start appreciating Love and Shame and Love. A keen-eyed observer of American life and history, Peter Orner strips every layer of pretense from his characters, not to diminish but rather to reveal them. This is a real and memorable America." --Yiyun Li

"I consider Peter Orner an essential American writer... Esther Stories was among the best story collections of the last decade. Love and Shame and Love is among the best novels of this fresh new one." -- Kevin Brockmeier

Alexander Popper can't stop remembering. Four years old when his father tossed him into Lake Michigan, he was told, Sink or swim, kid. In his mind, he's still bobbing in that frigid water. The rest of this novel's vivid cast of characters also struggle to remain afloat: Popper's mother, stymied by an unhappy marriage, seeks solace in the relentless energy of Chicago; his brother, Leo, shadow boss of the family, retreats into books; paternal grandparents, Seymour and Bernice, once high fliers, now mourn for long-lost days; his father, a lawyer and would-be politician obsessed with his own success, fails to see that the family is falling apart; and his college girlfriend, the fiercely independent Kat, wrestles with impossible choices.

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