The library book club I facilitate decided to read this collection of short stories. I knew almost nothing about Andre Dubus, save that he is from MA and he has a relative with the same name who also writes books. After reading this collection, I'm not sure I can say I know any more about the w...
On its publication, SEPARATE FLIGHTS won the Boston Globe's Lawrence L. Winship Award as the outstanding book of New England origin. This Dubus sampler includes a novella and seven short stories. Themes range from violence and confrontation to tenderness and affection. To quote from the Los Angel...
The Last Worthless EveningAndre DubusDavid R. Godine Publisher, January 1st 1997 Full of drama in every story that shocks my view on his characters, The Last Worthless Evening by Andre Dubus creates enthralling stories that must be finished. This book contains six different stories each with thei...
MENTE APERTA A QUALSIASI IMMAGINEE anche quella sera, mentre era rimasto fermo e terrorizzato sulle scale, con le dita e il palmo della mano che stringevano la ringhiera, come per ottenere maggiore silenzio dal corpo immobile…Non c’è niente da fare, quando leggo parole così, mi perdo e mi esalto,...
Adultery is a choice…among many others.Andre DubusAdultery & Other ChoicesOpen Road, New York, 2010Adultery and Other Choices consists of nine short stories and a novella. The book is broken into three parts, in which Dubus skillfully depicts the strifes and challenges of real life, and at the sa...
This book devastated me. I think it's impossible for any two different people to read this in the same way. It's a book of personal essays, and they're personal for the reader, as well. I can't recommend this book enough, but take care that you don't read it if you're in an emotionally weak place...
The Times are Never So Bad: A Novella and Eight Short Stories
Set in Dubus's largely coastal New England world, these short works focus on the residual anguish and momentary elation of deep emotional attachments--between lovers, between parent and child, and between estranged spouses.
They crossed themselves as they passed the Cathedral; then they were walking by the Bishop’s huge house, with its iron fence; on his lawn pines and live oaks thrashed in the wind. ‘I’m going to learn an instrument,’ Eddie said. Paul looked up at him, and then at the cars driving with their lights...
Once when she was sixteen a boy kissed her at a barbecue; he was drunk and he jammed his tongue into her mouth and ran his hands up and down her hips. Her father kissed her often. He was thin and kind and she could see in his eyes when he looked at her the lights of love and pity.It started when ...
At least I wasn’t there for the start of it, because I pitched that night and went nine innings and won, and the color man interviewed me after the game. He is Duke Simpson, and last year he was our first baseman. He came down from the broadcasting booth, and while the guys were going into the cl...