Eric Peterson
Award-Winning Fiction
Best Seller
The Dining Car
A young man embarks on the journey of a lifetime, bartending aboard a vintage private railroad car. Winner of the IBPA Benjamin Franklin Gold Award for Popular Fiction, the San Diego Book Award Gold Medal for Contemporary Fiction, and the Readers' Favorite Book Award Silver Medal for Literary Fiction
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Praise for The Dining Car
Like a meal prepared by a top-tier chef: great individual ingredients coming together to form something even better ... Peterson serves up his story in delicious form.
'Hurting, laughing, and falling in love'
Publishers Weekly
Prepare also to be surprised by the masterful prose offered up here by the author, whose pacing, descriptions, dialogue and plotting are seamlessly and effortlessly impeccable ...
Joel R. Dennstedt, ReadersFavorite.com
(5-star review)
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