Selected Stories - Hardcover

Dubus, Andre

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0879237368 ISBN 13: 9780879237363

Publisher: David R Godine Pub, 1988

Synopsis

The critically acclaimed author presents a collection of twenty-two tales peopled with decidedly unglamorous characters living north of Boston who everyday fight the small struggles of their lives

About this title

About the Author:

The author of nine works of fiction, Andre Dubus received the PEN/Malamud Award, the Rea Award for excellence in short fiction, the Jean Stein Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, The Boston Globe's first annual Lawrence L. Winship Award, and fellowships from both the Guggenheim and MacArthur foundations. Until his death in 1999, he lived in Haverhill, Massachusetts."

From the Inside Flap:

These twenty-three stories represent the best work of one of the finest and most emotionally revealing writers in America. Andre Dubus treats his characters--a bereaved father stalking his son's killer; a woman crying alone by her television late at night; a devout teenager writing in the coils of faith and sexuality; a father's story of limitless love for his daughter--with respect and compassion. He turns fiction into an act of witness. Books by Andre Dubus also in Vintage Contemporaries paperback: Dancing After Hours.

"Like some of the most satisfying storytellers of the past (Dubus has been compared to Chekhov), he is munificent, spinning out whole lifetimes and recounting events from many characters' viewpoints. For the lyricism and directness of his language, the richness and precision of his observations and the generosity of his vision, he is among the best."--Village Voice

"Dubus's characters resemble those of Raymond Carver...but the stories stand alone in their idiosyncratic spiritual cast, occasionally religious, more often expressive of devotion to the people he lives among."--New York Times Book Review

About this edition

• Publisher: David R Godine Pub
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0879237368
• ISBN 13: 9780879237363
• Binding: Hardcover