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The Best Spiritual Writing 2001ISBN 0062517724 (0-06-251772-4)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Best Spiritual Writing 2001'Book summary:Senior editor for Parabola magazine Philip Zaleski has a finely tuned sense of strong writing and strong spirit, as evidenced in the fifth installment of his highly esteemed Best Spiritual Writing series. The introduction by Andre Dubus III (House of Sand and Fog) sets the stage for the writers to follow. He tells of stumbling upon a "spiritual bookstore" while vacationing and how he immediately recoiled from the incense, crystals, goddess posters, and bookshelves labeled "Transcendence" and "Healing." On the same street he discovered a bookstore with a cigarette-smoking clerk and familiar genres: fiction, poetry. While one store shouted spiritual slogans and quick fixes, the other invited his soul to travel the gritty mysteries of characters, dialog, landscape, and story. "And it occurred to me that the form of spirituality I trust most comes directly from the sensual mass of life itself." Indeed, the host of heavenly voices in this anthology seems to rise from the complicated "sensual mass" called life. Bestselling author Brett Lott speaks of Oprah selecting Jewel for her book club and how it set in motion a series of humiliating lessons. In "Stillbirth," Leah Konselik Lebec reckons with the death of her 28-week-old son in utero. Some essays rise from a seeker's wonderment, such as Valerie Martin's essay "Being St. Francis." There are the occasional dry spots, but they remind readers that spirituality is not an entertainment industry. Rather, it is a reverent process born out of the willingness to listen and pay close attention. Other contributors include Terry Tempest Williams, Thomas Moore, and Pattiann Rogers. --Gail Hudson [via]
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Bluesmanby Andre DubusISBN 0375725164 (0-375-72516-4)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bluesman'Book summary:It is 1967. There's a war going on in Vietnam. In rural Heywood, Massachusetts, white men are playing the blues and eighteen-year-old Leo Suther is writing clumsy love songs to his girlfriend Allie Donovan. Leo has no intention if going off to war. He has big plans for his life with Allie. Though it's summer vacation now, there is no shortage of teachers for Leo. His father warns him that "life can turn on a dime". His jamming partners introduce him to the beauty of the blues harp. Allie's father, the local communist and civil rights organiser, lectures him on politics. And, of course, Allie herself has much to teach him. However, when Leo's life threatens to come unglued, it is his mother's wisdom he turns to. Though she died before Leo was five, her voice lives on in her diaries and poems, testifying to the strength of her love for her husband and son - a love that can still, years later, offer consolation. In Bluesman Andre Dubus III has written a novel of great warmth that evokes a time when America itself was coming of age, a novel that shows the same powerful understanding of humanity and the ways that human beings can misunderstand each other as his extraordinary novel House of Sand and Fog. [via]
Broken Vessels: Essaysby Andre DubusISBN 0330320092 (0-330-32009-2)
Softcover, Pan Macmillan
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The Cage Keeper and Other Storiesby Andre DubusISBN 0375727744 (0-375-72774-4)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Cage Keeper'Book summary: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.
A vigilant young man working in a halfway house finds himself unable to defend against the rage of one of the inmates in the title story. In "White Trees, Hammer Moon," a man soon to leave home for prison finds himself as unprepared for a family camping trip in the mountains of New Hampshire as he has been for most things in his life. And in the award-winning "Forky," an ex-con is haunted by the punishment he receives just as he is being released into the world. With an incisive ability to inhabit the lives of his characters, Dubus travels deep into the heart of the elusive American dream.
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Dancing after Hours : Storiesby Andre DubusISBN 0330351818 (0-330-35181-8)
Softcover, Pan Macmillan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dancing after Hours : Stories'Book summary:Over two decades, Andre Dubus has proven himself an essential American writer. "He restores faith in the survival of the short story" (Los Angeles Times), and now - with his first collection in nearly ten years - he demonstrates more powerfully than ever before both his mastery of the form and his understanding of our imperfect lives. In each of the fourteen stories in Dancing After Hours, Dubus uncovers the mystery of ordinary life as his characters - often perseverant, yet occasionally crazed by desire, loss, or disappointment - wrestle with love, faith, and luck. Whether at a roadside bar or a family camp, in the everyday rigors of domesticity or its violent extremes, these lives unfold with an inevitability that is moving, sometimes redemptive, always surprising. [via]
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Garden of Last Daysby Andre DubusISBN 0393041654 (0-393-04165-4)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Garden of Last Days'Book summary:From the author of the New York Times bestseller and Oprah's Book Club selection House of Sand and Fog--a new big-hearted, painful, page-turning novel.
One early September night in Florida, a stripper brings her daughter to work. April's usual babysitter is in the hospital, so she decides it's best to have her three-year-old daughter close by, watching children's videos in the office, while she works.
Except that April works at the Puma Club for Men. And tonight she has an unusual client, a foreigner both remote and too personal, and free with his money. Lots of it, all cash. His name is Bassam. Meanwhile, another man, AJ, has been thrown out of the club for holding hands with his favorite stripper, and he's drunk and angry and lonely.
From these explosive elements comes a relentless, raw, searing, passionate, page-turning narrative, a big-hearted and painful novel about sex and parenthood and honor and masculinity. Set in the seamy underside of American life at the moment before the world changed, it juxtaposes lust for domination with hunger for connection, sexual violence with family love. It seizes the reader by the throat with the same psychological tension, depth, and realism that characterized Andre Dubus's #1 bestseller, House of Sand and Fog--and an even greater sense of the dark and anguished places in the human heart. [via]More editions of Garden of Last Days:
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House of Sand and Fogby Andre DubusISBN 0375727345 (0-375-72734-5)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'House of Sand and Fog'Book summary:Andre Dubus III wastes no time in capturing the dark side of the immigrant experience in America at the end of the 20th century. House of Sand and Fog opens with a highway crew composed of several nationalities picking up litter on a hot California summer day. Massoud Amir Behrani, a former colonel in the Iranian military under the Shah, reflects on his job-search efforts since arriving in the U.S. four years before: "I have spent hundreds of dollars copying my credentials; I have worn my French suits and my Italian shoes to hand-deliver my qualifications; I have waited and then called back after the correct waiting time; but there is nothing." The father of two, Behrani has spent most of the money he brought with him from Iran on an apartment and furnishings that are too expensive, desperately trying to keep up appearances in order to enhance his daughter's chances of making a good marriage. Now the daughter is married, and on impulse he sinks his remaining funds into a house he buys at auction, thus unwittingly putting himself and his family on a trajectory to disaster. The house, it seems, once belonged to Kathy Nicolo, a self-destructive alcoholic who wants it back. What starts out as a legal tussle soon escalates into a personal confrontation--with dire results.
Dubus tells his tragic tale from the viewpoints of the two main adversaries, Behrani and Kathy. To both of them, the house represents something more than just a place to live. For the colonel, it is a foot in the door of the American dream; for Kathy, a reminder of a kinder, gentler past. In prose that is simple yet evocative, House of Sand and Fog builds to its inevitable denouement, one that is painfully dark but unfailingly honest. --Alix Wilber [via]
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- House of Sand and Fog: ISBN 0393046974 (0-393-04697-4)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc - House of Sand and Fog: ISBN 0613364082 (0-613-36408-2)
Hardcover, Bt Bound - House of Sand and Fog: ISBN 0375708413 (0-375-70841-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc - House of Sand and Fog: ISBN 0606202935 (0-606-20293-5)
Hardcover, Demco Media - House of Sand and Fog: ISBN 0375727345 (0-375-72734-5)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
- House of Sand and Fog: ISBN 0393046974 (0-393-04697-4)
The Last Worthless Evening: Four Novellas and Two Storiesby Andre DubusISBN 0140102590 (0-14-010259-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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Meditations from a Movable Chair: Essaysby Andre DubusISBN 0330374672 (0-330-37467-2)
Hardcover, Pan Macmillan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Meditations from a Movable Chair: Essays'Book summary:In his first book of essays, Broken Vessels, Andre Dubus uses experiences such as baseball games and sheep herding as occasions for insight. His second essay collection, Meditations from a Movable Chair, is about the people who have meant the most to him. The book conjures a cloud of witnesses--Dubus's father, his sister, Norman Mailer, Liv Ullmann, a gay military officer--so vividly that their gifts to Dubus become gifts to the reader, as well. Many of these people helped Dubus understand the holiness, even sacramentality, of everyday life, which he describes in explicitly Catholic terms. Meditations from a Movable Chair is a rare and wonderful thing--a book written out of love, whose richness of heart is expressed by an exacting and challenging mind. --Michael Joseph Gross [via]
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- Meditations from a Movable Chair: Essays: ISBN 0609001426 (0-609-00142-6)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing - Meditations from a Movable Chair: ISBN 067943108X (0-679-43108-X)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group - Meditations from a Movable Chair: Essays: ISBN 0330374672 (0-330-37467-2)
Hardcover, Pan Macmillan
- Meditations from a Movable Chair: Essays: ISBN 0609001426 (0-609-00142-6)
Selected Storiesby Andre DubusISBN 0330317709 (0-330-31770-9)
Softcover, Pan Macmillan
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The Stories of Breece D'J Pancakeby John Casey, Andre Dubus , Breece D'J Pancake, James Alan McPhersonISBN 0316715972 (0-316-71597-2)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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Voices from the Moonby Andre DubusISBN 0330296760 (0-330-29676-0)
Softcover, Pan Macmillan
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We Don't Live Here Anymore: Three Novellasby Andre Dubus , Dubus, Andre, IIIISBN 033028536X (0-330-28536-X)
Softcover, Pan Macmillan
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We Don't Live Here Anymore: Three Novellasby Dubus, Andre, III, Andre DubusISBN 0330285378 (0-330-28537-8)
Hardcover, Pan Macmillan
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