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During childhood summers in Louisiana, Andre’s grandfather taught
him that men’s work is hard. Ever after, whether tracking down a
drug lord in Mexico as a bounty hunter or grappling with privilege
while living with a rich girlfriend in New York City, Andre
worked—at being a better worker and a better human being. In his
longest essay, “If I Owned a Gun,” he reflects on the
empowerment and shame he felt in keeping a gun, and his decision,
ultimately, to give it up. Elsewhere, he writes of violent youth
and of settled domesticity and fatherhood; about the omnipresent
expectations and contradictions of masculinity; about the things
writers remember and those they forget. In conversation with
writers and thinkers from Rilke to Rumi to Tim O’Brien, Ghost
Dogs renders moments of personal revelation with emotional
generosity and stylistic grace, ultimately standing as essential
witness and testimony to the art of nonfiction.
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The Lieutenant (Paperback)
Andre Dubus; Introduction by Andre, III Dubus
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Tom Lowe's fall was catastrophic-a moment of fatigued inattention
while shingling a roof leading to excruciating pain, opioid
addiction, divorce, and estrangement from his son. Yet Tom still
considers himself a worker, unlike his shiftless neighbors in
subsidized housing. And he resents the hell out of the banker and
adjustable-rate mortgage responsible for foreclosure on the home he
built himself. After his car is impounded, Tom stoops lower than he
ever thought possible, with a scheme to commit convenience-check
fraud. But in digging through literal trash, Tom finds that
something new begins to grow: a recognition of common humanity, a
self-acceptance deeper than pride, a determination to give what he
can. Still, he'll need to fall even farther before he finds a new
place to rest. To one man's painful moral journey, Andre Dubus III
brings compassion with an edge of dark absurdity, forging a novel
as absorbing as it is profound.
After their parents divorced in the 1970s, Andre Dubus III and his
three siblings grew up with their overworked mother in a depressed
Massachusetts mill town saturated with drugs and everyday violence.
Nearby, his father, an eminent author, taught on a college campus
and took the kids out on Sundays. The clash between town and gown,
between the hard drinking, drugging, and fighting of "townies" and
the ambitions of students debating books and ideas, couldn t have
been more stark. In this unforgettable memoir, acclaimed novelist
Dubus shows us how he escaped the cycle of violence and found
empathy in channeling the stories of others bridging, in the
process, the rift between his father and himself."
A moving and inspiring anthology of masterful essays on stories
that touch the hearts and minds of readers. “A writer,” Nobel
Prize winner Saul Bellow once said, “is a reader who is moved to
emulation.” New York Times bestselling novelist and memoirist
Andre Dubus III took that idea and invited acclaimed authors to
write about short stories that altered their view of life and their
place in it—short stories that, ultimately, made them want to
write something substantial themselves. Here is Richard Russo on
Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery,” Joyce Carol Oates on John
Updike’s “A&P,” Tobias Wolff on Hawthorne’s
“Wakefield,” Michael Cunningham on James Joyce’s “The
Dead.” Readers will gain new insight into these masterfully
written stories but also on the contributors’ own lives and work.
The fifty contributors are T.C. Boyle, Russell Banks, Richard
Bausch, Robert Boswell, Charles Baxter, Ann Beattie, Madison Smartt
Bell, Ron Carlson, Lan Samantha Chang, Michael Cunningham, Junot
Diaz, Anthony Doerr, Emma Donoghue, Stuart Dybek, Dagoberto Gilb,
Julia Glass, Mary Gordon, Lauren Groff, Jennifer Haigh, Jane
Hamilton, Ron Hansen, Paul Harding, Ann Hood, Pam Houston, Gish
Jen, Charles Johnson, Phil Klay, Dennis Lehane, Lois Lowry, Colum
McCann, Sue Miller, Rick Moody, Antonya Nelson, Bich Nguyen, Joyce
Carol Oates, Stewart O’Nan, Peter Orner, ZZ Packer, Ann Patchett,
Edith Pearlman, Jayne Ann Phillips, Kirstin Valdez Quade, Anna
Quindlen, Ron Rash, Richard Russo, Dani Shapiro, Mona Simpson, Jess
Walter, Tobias Wolff, and Meg Wolitzer. Reaching Inside will remind
you why you fell in love with reading.
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The Grifters (Paperback)
Andre Dubus; Jim Thompson
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To his friends, to his coworkers, and even to his mistress Moira,
Roy Dillon is an honest hardworking salesman. He lives in a cheap
hotel just within his pay bracket. He goes to work every day. He
has hundreds of friends and associates who could attest to his good
character.
Yet, hidden behind three gaudy clown paintings in Roy's pallid
hotel room, sits fifty-two thousand dollars--the money Roy makes
from his short cons, his "grifting." For years, Roy has
effortlessly maintained control over his house-of-cards life--until
the simplest con goes wrong, and he finds himself critically
injured and at the mercy of the most dangerous woman he ever met:
his own mother.
THE GRIFTERS, one of the best novels ever written about the art of
the con, is an ingeniously crafted story of deception and betrayal
that was the basis for Stephen Frears' and Martin Scorsese's
critically-acclaimed film of the same name.
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Dirty Love (Paperback)
Andre Dubus
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In these linked novellas in which characters walk out the back door
of one story and into the next, love is "dirty" tangled up with
need, power, boredom, ego, fear, and fantasy. On the Massachusetts
coast north of Boston, a controlling manager, Mark, discovers his
wife's infidelity after twenty-five years of marriage. An
overweight young woman, Marla, gains a romantic partner but loses
her innocence. A philandering bartender/aspiring poet, Robert,
betrays his pregnant wife. And in the stunning title novella, a
teenage girl named Devon, fleeing a dirty image of her posted
online, seeks respect in the eyes of her widowed great-uncle
Francis and of an Iraq vet she s met surfing the Web.
Slivered by happiness and discontent, aging and death, but also
persistent hope and forgiveness, these beautifully wrought
narratives express extraordinary tenderness toward human beings,
our vulnerable hearts and bodies, our fulfilling and unfulfilling
lives alone and with others."
An ex- con who did time for murder, the estranged daughter he
hasn’t seen in forty years and the grandmother angry enough to
kill him all come together in this riveting family drama. Like
Dubus’s already- classic memoir, Townie, and his novel House of
Sand and Fog (a #1 The New York Times bestseller), Gone So Long is
a profound exploration of the struggle between the selves we wish
to be and the ones—shaped by chance and circumstance, as well as
character—that we can’t escape.
In his stunning follow-up to the #1 best-selling House of Sand and
Fog, Andre Dubus draws us into the lives of three deeply flawed,
driven people whose paths intersect on a September night in
Florida. April, a stripper, has brought her daughter to work at the
Puma Club for Men. There she encounters Bassam, a foreign client
both remote and too personal, and free with his money. Meanwhile,
another man, AJ, has been thrown out of the club, and he s drunk
and angry and lonely. From these explosive elements comes a
relentless, raw, and page-turning narrative that seizes the reader
by the throat with psychological tension, depth, and realism."
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Why I Like This Story (Hardcover)
Jackson R. Bryer; Contributions by A.R. Gurney, Alan Cheuse, Alice McDermott, Andre Dubus, …
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Presents essays by leading short-story writers on their favorite
American short stories and why they like them. It will send readers
to the library or bookstore to read - or re-read - the stories
selected. On the assumption that John Updike was correct when he
asserted, in a 1978 letter to Joyce Carol Oates, that "Nobody can
read like a writer," Why I Like This Story presents brief essays by
forty-eight leading American writers on their favorite American
short stories, explaining why they like them. The essays, which are
personal, not scholarly, not only tell us much about the story
selected, they also tell us a good deal about the author of the
essay, about what elements of fiction he or she values. Among the
writers whose stories are discussed are such American masters as
James, Melville, Hemingway, O'Connor, Fitzgerald, Porter, Carver,
Wright, Updike, Bellow, Salinger,Malamud, and Welty; but the book
also includes pieces on stories by canonical but lesser-known
practitioners such as Andre Dubus, Ellen Glasgow, Kay Boyle,
Delmore Schwartz, George Garrett, Elizabeth Tallent, William Goyen,
Jerome Weidman, Peter Matthiessen, Grace Paley, William H. Gass,
and Jamaica Kincaid, and relative newcomers such as Lorrie Moore,
Kirstin Valdez Quade, Phil Klay, Viet Thanh Nguyen, and Edward P.
Jones. Why I Like This Story will send readers to the library or
bookstore to read or re-read the stories selected. Among the
contributors to the book are Julia Alvarez, Andrea Barrett, Richard
Bausch, Ann Beattie, Andre Dubus, George Garrett, William H. Gass,
Julia Glass, Doris Grumbach, Jane Hamilton, Jill McCorkle, Alice
McDermott, Clarence Major, Howard Norman, Annie Proulx, Joan
Silber, Elizabeth Spencer, and Mako Yoshikawa. Editor Jackson R.
Bryer is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of
Maryland.
Few writers can enter their characters so completely or evoke their
lives as viscerally as Andre Dubus III. In this deeply compelling
new novel, a father, estranged for the worst of reasons, is driven
to seek out the daughter he has not seen in decades. Daniel Ahearn
lives a quiet, solitary existence in a seaside New England town.
Forty years ago, following a shocking act of impulsive violence on
his part, his daughter, Susan, was ripped from his arms by police.
Now in her forties, Susan still suffers from the trauma of a night
she doesn't remember, as she struggles to feel settled, to love a
man and create something that lasts. Lois, her maternal grandmother
who raised her, tries to find peace in her antique shop in a quaint
Florida town but cannot escape her own anger, bitterness and fear.
Cathartic, affirming and steeped in the empathy and precise
observations of character for which Dubus is celebrated, Gone So
Long explores how the wounds of the past afflict the people we
become and probes the limits of recovery and absolution.
With House of Sand and Fog, his National Book Award-nominated novel, Andre Dubus III demonstrated his mastery of the complexities of character and desire. In this earlier novel he captures a roiling time in American history and the coming-of-age of a boy who must decide between desire, ambition, and duty.
In the summer of 1967, Leo Suther has one more year of high school to finish and a lot more to learn. He's in love with the beautiful Allie Donovan who introduces him to her father, Chick — a construction foreman and avowed Communist. Soon Leo finds himself in the midst of a consuming love affair and an intense testing of his political values. Chick's passionate views challenge Leo's perspective on the escalating Vietnam conflict and on just where he stands in relation to the new people in his life. Throughout his — and the nation's — unforgettable "summer of love," Leo is learning the language of the blues, which seem to speak to the mourning he feels for his dead mother, his occasionally distant father, and the youth which is fast giving way to manhood.
After their parents divorced in the 1970s, Andre Dubus III and his
three siblings grew up with their exhausted working mother in a
depressed Massachusetts mill town saturated with drugs and everyday
violence. To protect himself and those he loved, Andre started
pumping iron and learned to use his fists so well that he became
the kind of man who could send others to the hospital with one
punch, and did. Irresistibly drawn to stand up for the underdog, he
was on a fast track to getting killed-or killing someone else.
Nearby, his father, an eminent author, taught on a college campus
and took the kids out on Sundays. The clash of worlds between town
and gown, between the hard drinking, drugging, and fighting of
"townies" and the ambitions of well-fed students debating books and
ideas, couldn't have been more stark or more difficult for a son to
communicate to a father. Only by finally putting pen to paper
himself did young Andre come into his own, discovering the power of
empathy in channeling the stories of others-and ultimately bridging
the rift between his father and himself. An unforgettable book,
Townie is a riveting and profound meditation on physical violence
and the failures and triumphs of love.
Spirituality, sex, violence, guilt, and morality in stories that
are filled with a generosity and tenderness that distinguishes the
masterful short fiction writer, Andre Dubus. This third volume in
the Collected Short Stories and Novellas by Andre Dubus includes
the four novellas and two stories collected in The Last Worthless
Evening, the novella, Voices from the Moon, plus previously
uncollected stories—all with an introduction by Tobias Wolff.
“It’s divorce that did it,” his father had said last night.
So begins Voices from the Moon, the 126-page novella that takes
place over the course of a single day and alternates between the
viewpoints of Richie Stowe, a serious twelve-year-old who plans to
become a priest, and the five other members of his family. The
stories from The Last Worthless Evening range further than in any
previous Dubus collection: racial tension in the Navy; a detective
story homage; a Hispanic shortstop; the unlikely pairing of an
eleven-year-old kid and a dangerous Vietnam vet. Finally, this
volume includes previously uncollected stories, including work from
the mid-1960s and the late 1990s. The earliest story appearing here
is “The Cross Country Runner”—first published in the
Midwestern University Quarterly in 1966 when Dubus was 30 years
old. The final story—the western-themed “Sisters”—is the
last piece of fiction Dubus was working on when he died suddenly in
1999 at the age of 63. Collected Short Stories and Novellas by
Andre Dubus includes We Don’t Live Here Anymore, The Winter
Father, and The Cross Country Runner. All three contain work by an
American master, perfect for anyone who loves stories of the human
heart and where it can lead us.
Exquisitely powerful short stories by the masterful Andre Dubus.
Originally published in two volumes, The Times Are Never So Bad and
Finding a Girl in America. This collection includes some of Andre
Dubus’s most celebrated stories including “A Father’s
Story,” “The Pretty Girl,” and “Killings”—the basis of
the Academy Award-nominated film In the Bedroom—a swift tale of
revenge that leaves readers wondering what they might do in the
name of family love. “Dubus’s stories feel as fresh today as
they did when I first read them, three decades ago,” Richard
Russo writes in the introduction. “One reason is the delight he
takes in playing off readers’ genre expectations. Conventional
robbery stories, for example, are almost always concerned with
whether the thieves will get caught. Here [in ‘Anna’] it’s
the exact opposite. Dubus doesn’t care whether Anna and Wayne get
caught; not getting caught actually deepens their predicament.
Similarly, ‘Townies,’ which at first appears to be the story of
a murdered college girl, turns out to be about the unexpected link
between the campus cop who finds her body and the boy who kills
her, both of whom have been excluded from the privileged girl’s
world by virtue of their class.” Collected Short Stories and
Novellas by Andre Dubus includes We Don’t Live Here Anymore, The
Winter Father, and The Cross Country Runner. All three contain work
by an American master, perfect for anyone who loves stories of the
human heart and where it can lead us.
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.
In this stunning novel Andre Dubus III set in present-day California a story of human conflict that has the power and resonance of a classical tragedy.Working on a road crew in California, a former colonel in the Shah's Air Force yearns to restore his family's dignity. When an attractive bungalow comes up at a country auction for a fraction of its value, he sees an opportunity to dream his own American Dream, for himself, his wife and children. But for the house's former owner, a recovering alcoholic and addict down on her luck, the loss of her father's house is the latest in a series of insults life has dealt her. When he becomes involved with a married policeman who takes up her cause, the stage is set for a gut-wrenching tragedy, which keeps the reader gripped and moved to the last page.Dubus has an extraordinary ability to get us inside each of his characters, to see the world as it is for each of them. These are ordinary people, people just looking for a small piece of ground to stand on, driven by the same ordinary needs into inevitable conflict - a conflict in which even the reader, rooting for all of them, has no safe haven.Unfolding relentlessly from its opening pages, House of Sand and Fog is a narrative triumph. It turns both the traditional immigrant success story and a modern love story upside down with a heartrending outcome, combining American realism with a Shak
Tender the River captures in verse the history and legacy of the
Merrimack River Valley, from the Pennacook, Wamesit, Algonquin, and
other indigenous tribes who settled there first, to the European
settlers who came with guns and their god to supplant them, to
being the birthplace of America's industrial revolution and first
labor movements, to becoming a center of continued immigration, of
entrenched nativism, and even multicultural celebration. The
Merrimack River begins with the confluence of the Pemigewasset and
Winnipesaukee rivers spilling from the White Mountains in New
Hampshire, then travels down through mill towns like Manchester,
Lowell, and Haverhill to finally spit out violently into the
Atlantic in the old port (now posh) town of Newburyport. In its
journey between those points and as well across the centuries, the
Merrimack River Valley has been America in microcosm, many of the
nation's democratic successes and demagogic sins being seeded
there.
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Louisiana Stories (Paperback)
Zora Hurston; Edited by Ben Forkner; Contributions by E. O'Donnell, Shirley Grau, Ernest Gaines, …
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"An illuminating, and at the same time, thoroughly entertaining
compilation, Louisiana Stories is enhanced by an introductory essay
that is a contribution not only to the literary history of the
state but also of the South." Lewis P. Simpson, former professor of
English at Louisiana State University and editor of The Southern
Review. Southern writers have always excelled in the short story
form. Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor, and Peter Taylor are the
yardsticks by which short story writers are judged not only within
the realm of Southern literature but also within that of American
literature. By compiling an impressive array of stories by many of
the Deep South's finest writers, anthologist Ben Forkner
demonstrates how Louisianans in particular have influenced the
development of the short story. Forkner writes in his insightful
introductory essay: "These same native Louisiana stories manage to
announce the central themes of modern Southern fiction more
emphatically, and earlier, than the writing of any other single
Southern region." Included in this compilation are works by Henry
Clay Lewis, George Washington Cable, Lafcadio Hearn, Grace King,
Kate Chopin, William Faulkner, Lyle Saxon, Arna Bontemps, Zora
Neale Hurston, E.P. O'Donnell, Shirley Ann Grau, Ernest Gaines,
Andre Dubus, James Lee Burke, Robb Forman Dew, and John William
Corrington. Ben Forkner is the director of the English department
at the University of Angers in France where he teaches American and
Irish literature. A graduate of Stetson University in Florida, he
received his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill. He has co-edited three anthologies of Southern
literature, Stories of the Modern South, A Modern Southern Reader,
and Stories of the Old South .
In these linked novellas in which characters walk out the back door
of one story and into the next, love is "dirty" tangled up with
need, power, boredom, ego, fear, and fantasy. On the Massachusetts
coast north of Boston, a controlling manager, Mark, discovers his
wife's infidelity after twenty-five years of marriage. An
overweight young woman, Marla, gains a romantic partner but loses
her innocence. A philandering bartender/aspiring poet, Robert,
betrays his pregnant wife. And in the stunning title novella, a
teenage girl named Devon, fleeing a dirty image of her posted
online, seeks respect in the eyes of her widowed great-uncle
Francis and of an Iraq vet she s met surfing the Web.
Slivered by happiness and discontent, aging and death, but also
persistent hope and forgiveness, these beautifully wrought
narratives express extraordinary tenderness toward human beings,
our vulnerable hearts and bodies, our fulfilling and unfulfilling
lives alone and with others."
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