A Thornton Publishing Top 10 List
Top 10 Best "Andre Dubus" Books
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The Garden of Last DaysAndre Dubus IIIBooks |
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Adultery & Other ChoicesAndre DubusAndre Dubus |
Adultery & Other Choices This second book of short stories by Andre Dubus established him as a master of the genre in the lineage of Hemingway and Chekhov, even as its gritty truths and spiritual attentiveness served to set his voice apart. The opening stories focus on the fragile nature of youth, exemplified in struggles with a father, a friend, an enemy, and obesity. In part two, Dubus contends with more adult forms of discipline: the military, the police, and fate and then leaves us with the most wrenchingof all emotional challenges in the final novella, "Adultery." Poignant as parables, alive as fiction, and compelling as pure narrative, these familiar stories never fail to entertain while, at the same time, leaving the reader breathless with the immediacy and depth of real life in real America. |
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Selected StoriesAndre DubusBooks |
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Dancing After HoursAndre DubusBooks |
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Broken VesselsAndre DubusBooks |
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Meditations from a Movable ChairAndre DubusBooks |
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Selected StoriesAndre DubusBooks |
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We Don't Live Here Anymore Andre Dubus
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In the BedroomAndre DubusBooks |
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BluesmanAndre Dubus IIIBooks |
Finding a Girl in America In his third Godine collection, the author of Separate Flights (1975) and Adultery & Other Choices (1977) deepens his hold on our attention. His people, the ones we see everyday but hardly know, deliver those recurrent shocks of recognition that are the mark of a seasoned storyteller. His largely coastal New England world more and more feels like a permanent part of the modern literary landscape. The novella, 'Finding a Girl in America,' continues the life of Hank Allison, a central character in Dubus' earlier long tales, 'We Don't Live Here Anymore' and 'Adultery.' Hank is a man haunted by his failures as a husband, his concern for his daughter, and his need for a new marriage that can survive his obsessive writer's absorption with himself. Other stories including 'Killings,' a swift and wholly successful tale of revenge; 'Townies,' about a young man whose affair with an undergraduate girl ends in deadly fury; 'At Saint Croix,' the story of a man and woman, both divorced, whose Caribbean spring vacation fails to exorcise his ghosts; 'The Pitcher,' where a baseball player can manage ... |
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Finding a Girl in AmericaAndre DubusAndre Dubus |
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House of Sand and Fog (Oprah's Book Club) (Vintage Contemporaries)Andre Dubus IIIBooks |
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