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Adultery & Other ChoicesISBN 0879232846 (0-87923-284-6)
Softcover, David R Godine Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Adultery & Other Choices'Book summary:This second book of short stories by Andre Dubus established him as a master of the genre in the lineage of Hemingway and Chekhov, even as its gritty truths and spiritual attentiveness served to set his voice apart. The opening stories focus on the fragile nature of youth, exemplified in struggles with a father, a friend, an enemy, and obesity. In part two, Dubus contends with more adult forms of discipline: the military, the police, and fate and then leaves us with the most wrenchingof all emotional challenges in the final novella, "Adultery." Poignant as parables, alive as fiction, and compelling as pure narrative, these familiar stories never fail to entertain while, at the same time, leaving the reader breathless with the immediacy and depth of real life in real America. [via]
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The Best Spiritual Writing 2001by Philip Zaleski, Dubus, Andre, IIIISBN 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 Philip Zaleski, Dubus, Andre, IIIISBN 0375725164 (0-375-72516-4)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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Bluesman: A Novelby Dubus, Andre, IIIISBN 0099426897 (0-09-942689-7)
Softcover, Random House
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The Cage Keeper and Other Storiesby Dubus, Andre, IIIISBN 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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The Cage Keeper and Other Storiesby Dubus, Andre, III , Nancy DubusISBN 0517079852 (0-517-07985-2)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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Finding a Girl in Americaby Dubus, Andre, III , Nancy DubusISBN 0879233931 (0-87923-393-1)
Softcover, David R Godine Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Finding a Girl in America'Book summary:In his third Godine collection, the author of Separate Flights (1975) and Adultery & Other Choices (1977) deepens his hold on our attention. His people, the ones we see everyday but hardly know, deliver those recurrent shocks of recognition that are the mark of a seasoned storyteller. His largely coastal New England world more and more feels like a permanent part of the modern literary landscape.
The novella, 'Finding a Girl in America,' continues the life of Hank Allison, a central character in Dubus' earlier long tales, 'We Don't Live Here Anymore' and 'Adultery.' Hank is a man haunted by his failures as a husband, his concern for his daughter, and his need for a new marriage that can survive his obsessive writer's absorption with himself.
Other stories including 'Killings,' a swift and wholly successful tale of revenge; 'Townies,' about a young man whose affair with an undergraduate girl ends in deadly fury; 'At Saint Croix,' the story of a man and woman, both divorced, whose Caribbean spring vacation fails to exorcise his ghosts; 'The Pitcher,' where a baseball player can manage his arm but not his wife; and 'The Winter Father,' a story of overwhelming tenderness dealing with a divorced father and his weekend attempts to re-establish contact with his two children.
Subtle and haunting, Dubus concentrates his Chekhovian and utterly American attention on the residual anguish and momentary elation of deep attachments. Nothing in current American writing seems more genuine that this increasingly celebrated writer's rueful and chastened fictions. [via]More editions of Finding a Girl in America:
House of Sand and Fogby Dubus, Andre, IIIISBN 009928314X (0-09-928314-X)
Softcover, Random House
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House of Sand and Fogby Dubus, Andre, IIIISBN 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]
The Stories of Breece D'J Pancakeby Dubus, Andre, IIIISBN 0316715972 (0-316-71597-2)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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The Times Are Never So Badby Dubus, Andre, IIIISBN 0879236418 (0-87923-641-8)
Softcover, David R Godine Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Times Are Never So Bad'Book summary: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. [via]
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Times Are Never So Badby Dubus, Andre, IIIISBN 0140083383 (0-14-008338-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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Voices from the Moonby Dubus, Andre, IIIISBN 0879235322 (0-87923-532-2)
Hardcover, David R Godine Pub
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Voices from the Moon and Other Storiesby Dubus, Andre, IIIISBN 0140083391 (0-14-008339-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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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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