Andre Dubus
Birth date: August 11, 1936
Died: February 24, 1999
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"""I have often imagined him returning home a week early that summer, to a mother, to a father; and having to watch his father's face as the boy told him he failed because he was weak. A trifling incident in a whole lifetime, you may say. Not true. It could have changed him forever, his life with ot...
Meh.I liked it, but thought it was only OK.Two couples that are friends cheat on each other with the other’s spouse. Everyone gets found out and one couple decides to stay together, while the other tries to have an open marriage that ultimately ends up in divorce. The second two stories follow the ...
This is perhaps the quickest and most natural read of my entire career. I cannot imagine reading anything as swiftly and easily as this reading came to me. The book was smoldering in my hands and I had to put it down from time to time because of it. The heat had everything to do with its subjects wh...
Andre Dubus is my favorite American short story writer. In fact, he is one of my few favorite American writers period. He has the realism of Cheever and Carver, but more warmth than Carver and Hemingway. His prose is understated and never unnecessary; he is one of the few writers I have read where e...
I have a theory–thoroughly untested, and probably wrong–that you can identify a novel written by a master of the short story by its use of the close third-person point of view. Where novelist-novelists might choose a more omniscient voice, flitting from consciousness to consciousness, or a point of ...
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