Selected Stories
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781453299517 (1453299513)
Publish date: November 23rd 2010
Publisher: Open Road Media
Pages no: 476
Edition language: English
"""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...
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...