Dancing After Hours: Stories
A New York Times Notable Book of the YearFrom a genuine hero of the American short story comes a luminous collection that reveals the seams of hurt, courage, and tenderness that run through the bedrock of contemporary American life. In these fourteen stories, Dubus depicts ordinary men and women...
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A New York Times Notable Book of the YearFrom a genuine hero of the American short story comes a luminous collection that reveals the seams of hurt, courage, and tenderness that run through the bedrock of contemporary American life. In these fourteen stories, Dubus depicts ordinary men and women confronting injury and loneliness, the lack of love and the terror of actually having it. Out of his characters' struggles and small failures--and their unexpected moments of redemption--Dubus creates fiction that bears comparison to the short story's greatest creators--Chekhov, Raymond Carver, Flannery O'Connor.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780679431077 (0679431071)
Publish date: February 13th 1996
Publisher: Knopf
Pages no: 233
Edition language: English
In Dancing After Hours, Andre Dubus offers fourteen stories about grace. They’re not pretty stories, or necessarily happy stories; his characters are broken, flawed, often petty and mean, always a little less than they dreamed they would be. They’ve made mistakes, and they’ve faced unhappiness, not ...
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