Andre Dubus
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Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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The reflective essays of one of America’s most accomplished authors.
Andre Dubus is celebrated for depicting the subtlest of human emotions and finding compassion for the most damaged, and damaging, of characters. In the essays collected here, the author turns the microscope on himself, and the results are no less illuminating. Intimate and evocative, these autobiographical accounts of his childhood in Louisiana, his experiences...
Andre Dubus is celebrated for depicting the subtlest of human emotions and finding compassion for the most damaged, and damaging, of characters. In the essays collected here, the author turns the microscope on himself, and the results are no less illuminating. Intimate and evocative, these autobiographical accounts of his childhood in Louisiana, his experiences...
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English
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After their parents divorce in the 1970's, Andre Dubus III and his three siblings grew up with their exhausted working mother in a depressed Massachusetts mill town saturated with drugs and crime. To protect himself and those he loved from street violence, Andre learned to use his fists so well that he was even scared of himself. He was on a fast track to getting killed, or killing someone else, or to beatings-for-pay as a boxer. Nearby, his father,...
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English
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Opportunity knocks for an Iranian immigrant in California when the county offers for sale a seized house at a bargain price. It will serve as a launching pad for his real-estate business. When the county discovers it made an error, the drug-addicted woman who owned the house demands its return, but the Iranian refuses. Unfortunately for him, the woman's lover is a policeman who takes the law into his hands.
6) Dirty love
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Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
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A collection of short stories examining the lives of suburbanites seeking solace and gratification in food, sex, work, and love.
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English
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Passion and betrayal, violent desperation, ambivalent love that hinges on hatred, and the quest for acceptance by those who stand on the edge of society -- these are the hard-hitting themes of a stunningly crafted first collection of stories by the bestselling author of House of Sand and Fog. In the title story, a vigilant young man working in a halfway house finds himself unable to defend against the rage of one of the inmates. In ''White Trees,...
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English
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Few writers can enter their characters so completely or evoke their lives as viscerally as Andre Dubus III. In this deeply compelling new novel, a father, estranged for the worst of reasons, is driven to seek out the daughter he has not seen in decades. Daniel Ahearn lives a quiet, solitary existence in a seaside New England town. Forty years ago, following a shocking act of impulsive violence on his part, his daughter, Susan, was ripped from his...
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English
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"Tom Lowe's identity and his pride are invested in the work he does with his back and his hands. He designed and built his family's dream home, working extra hours to pay off the adjustable rate mortgage he took on the property, convinced he is making every sacrifice for the happiness of his wife and son. Until, in a moment of fatigued inattention, shingling a roof in too-bright sunlight, he falls. In constant pain, addicted to painkillers at the...
Author
Publisher
David R. Godine
Pub. Date
1983.
Language
English
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The focus of this collection, which includes the often praised tale "A Father's Story," as well as the novella "the Pretty Girl," is on the twisting deformations of love, on domestic disturbances, and on marriages whose sanctity can no longer bind them. --Amazon.com.
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Publisher
D.R. Godine
Pub. Date
1984.
Language
English
Description
In the aftermath of two failed marriages, a Catholic family seeks salvation from within. Voices from the Moon opens amidst the fallout of Stowe family patriarch Greg's divorce from his wife, Joan; and shortly after, that of their eldest son, Larry, from his wife, Brenda. On the verge of adolescence, young Richie Stowe grapples to make sense of these events and their consequences, and seeks solace in the church. As the family attempts to mend itself...
13) The lieutenant
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Series
Publisher
Dial Press
Pub. Date
1967.
Language
English
Description
A young Marine Corps officer is under a senior Navy officer's command on an aircraft carrier stationed off Japan. When some enlisted men act out pranks that can suggest homosexual associations, the Lieutenant is held responsible and he recalls why he came to the Corps and what it means to him.
14) Bluesman
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Publisher
Faber
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
It is the summer of 1967 and Leo Suther is about to turn eighteen. This is the summer that everyone has something to teach Leo. His father warns him that "life can turn on a dime." Allie, his girlfriend, wants to teach him about love. Her father, the local communist and civil rights organizer, lectures him on politics and carpentry. And Ryder, a family friend, wants to show Leo the magic of the harmonica--harp of the blues.
However, when Leo's life...
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Publisher
A.A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
Fourteen stories whose protagonists wrestle with love, faith, and luck. In The Lover, a man in his fifties falls in love with a girl younger than his daughter, A Love Song is on the pain of divorce, and The Colonel's Wife is on the repercussions of a man's physical injury on a marriage. By the author of Broken Vessels.
Author
Publisher
David R. Godine Publisher
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Andre Dubus's short stories and novellas illuminate the lives of women and men cast against harrowing and heartrending circumstances. The gripping themes of Dubus's oeuvre - faith and family, violence and loyalty, guilt and morality - have earned him comparisons to master storytellers such as Raymond Carver, Flannery O'Connor, and Anton Chekhov. With a deft touch, Dubus tackles nearly unspeakable subjects. Yet, without succumbing to sentimentality,...