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Broken Vessels

Essays

By: Andre Dubus

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The reflective essays of one of America’s most accomplished authors. Andre Dubus is celebrated for depicting the subtlest of human emotions and finding compassion for the most damaged, and damaging, of characters. In the essays collected here, the author turns the microscope on himself, and the results are no less illuminating. Intimate and evocative, these autobiographical accounts of his childhood in Louisiana, his experiences in the Marine Corps, and, later, his life as a husband and father, paint a vivid portrait of this acclaimed author. Written with the sapience and depth of feeling that made his reputation in fiction, Broken Vessels is perhaps Dubus’s most intimate work of all. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Andre Dubus including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s estate.

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Open Road Media

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1453299661

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In the Bedroom

Seven Stories by Andre Dubus

By: Andre Dubus

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In the Bedroom

Seven Stories by Andre Dubus

By: Andre Dubus

The seven stories collected here–including “Killings,” the basis for Todd Field’s award-winning film In the Bedroom–showcase legendary writer Andre Dubus’s sheer narrative mastery in a book of quietly staggering emotional power. A father in mourning contemplates the unthinkable as the only way to allay his grief. A boy must learn to care for his younger brother when their mother leaves the family. A young woman who has never lacked lovers despairs of ever finding love itself, and then makes an accidental discovery that brings her real joy. Culled from Dubus’s treasured collections Selected Stories and Dancing After Hours, these beautiful stories of people at pivotal moments in their lives are some of the most bewitching and profound in American fiction.

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164

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Vintage

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1400030773

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9781400030774

Meditations from a Movable Chair

Essays

By: Andre Dubus

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Meditations from a Movable Chair

Essays

By: Andre Dubus

For Andre Dubus, "the quotidian and the spiritual don't exist on different planes, but infuse each other. His is an unapologetically sacramental vision of life in which ordinary things participate in the miraculous, the miraculous in ordinary things. He believes in God, and talks to Him, and doesn't mince words. He believes in ghosts . . . He is open to mystery, and of all mysteries the one that interests him most is the human potential for transcendence." So wrote Tobias Wolff seven years ago, about Andre Dubus's Broken Vessels, and that insight describes perfectly the twenty-five pieces in this powerfully moving new collection, a continuation of Dubus's candid, intensely personal exploration into matters of morality, religion, and creativity. Since that first book of essays, written after the 1986 accident that cost him his leg and, for a time, the ability to write, Mr. Dubus has published Dancing After Hours, a unanimously heralded book of stories "at once harrowing and exhilarating" (Time). Here is Dubus on the rape of his beloved sister, his first real job, a gay naval officer, Hemingway, the blessing of his first marriage, his dear friend Richard Yates, his own crippling, lost autumnal pleasures, having sons and grandsons, his first books, meeting a woman who witnessed his accident, the Catholic church, and, of course, his faith. A writer of immense sensitivity, vulnerability, and thoughtfulness--a master at the height of his talent--whose work "is suffused with grace, bathed in a kind of spiritual glow" (New York Times Book Review).

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Vintage

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0307801926

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9780307801920

House of Sand and Fog

By: Andre Dubus

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House of Sand and Fog

By: Andre Dubus

The Oprah Book Club selection for November 2000.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393046974

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9780393046977

Conversations with Andre Dubus

By: Andre Dubus

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Conversations with Andre Dubus

By: Andre Dubus

Interviews with the author of Adultery and Other Choices, In the Bedroom, and The Last Worthless Evening

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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1617037850

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9781617037856

Dirty Love

By: Andre Dubus

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Dirty Love

By: Andre Dubus

A collection of short stories examining the lives of suburbanites seeking solace and gratification in food, sex, work, and love.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393064654

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9780393064650

Townie

A Memoir

By: Andre Dubus

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Townie

A Memoir

By: Andre Dubus

I've never read a better or more serious meditation on violence, its sources, consequences, and, especially, its terrifying pleasures, than "Townie." It's a brutal and, yes, thrilling memoir that sheds real light on the creative process of two of our best writers, Andre Dubus III and his famous, much revered father. You'll never read the work of either man in quite the same way afterward. You may not view the world in quite the same way either.--Richard Russo, author of "Empire Falls.

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0393340678

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9780393340679

The Garden of Last Days

A Novel

By: Andre Dubus III,Andre Dubus

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The Garden of Last Days

A Novel

By: Andre Dubus III,Andre Dubus

Explosive elements converge one early September night in a Florida men's club revealing the seamy underside of American life at the moment before the world changed.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393335305

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9780393335309

The Cage Keeper

And Other Stories

By: Andre Dubus III

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The Cage Keeper

And Other Stories

By: Andre Dubus III

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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Vintage

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0307428230

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9780307428233

Such Kindness: A Novel

By: Andre Dubus III

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Such Kindness: A Novel

By: Andre Dubus III

A working-class white man takes a terrible fall. Tom Lowe’s identity and his pride are invested in the work he does with his back and his hands. He designed and built his family’s dream home, working extra hours to pay off the adjustable rate mortgage he took on the property, convinced he is making every sacrifice for the happiness of his wife and son. Until, in a moment of fatigued inattention, shingling a roof in too-bright sunlight, he falls. In constant pain, addicted to painkillers at the cost of his relationships with his wife and son, Tom slowly comes to realize that he can never work again. If he is not a working man, who is he? He is not, he believes, the kind of person who lives in subsidized housing, though that is where he has ended up. He is not the kind of person who hatches a scheme to commit convenience-check fraud, together with neighbors he considers lowlifes, until he finds himself stealing his banker’s trash. Who is Tom Lowe, and who will he become? Can he find a way to reunite hands and heart, mind and spirit, to be once again a giver and not just a taker, to forge a self-acceptance deeper than pride? Andre Dubus III’s soulful cast includes Trina, the struggling mom next door who sells her own plasma to get by; Dawn, the tough-talking owner of the local hairdressing salon; Jamie, a well-meaning pothead college student ready to stick it to “the man”; and a mix of strangers and neighbors who will never know the role they played in changing a life. To one man’s painful moral journey, Dubus brings compassion with an edge of dark absurdity, forging a novel as absorbing as it is profound.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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1324000473

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9781324000471

Conversations with Andre Dubus

By: Andre Dubus

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By: Andre Dubus

Interviews with the author of Adultery and Other Choices, In the Bedroom, and The Last Worthless Evening

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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Gone So Long: A Novel

By: Andre Dubus III

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Gone So Long: A Novel

By: Andre Dubus III

Taut with tension.… [E]nding with a hint of hope."—Rob Merrill, Associated Press 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. Gone So Long is a riveting family drama about 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. 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, it confirms Andre Dubus’s reputation as a novelist whose “compassion is unsentimental and unblinking, total and unwavering” (Paul Harding).

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0393244113

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9780393244113

Four Sad Tales

Leslie in California, Final Grace, Happily Ever After & Window

By: Roger Armbrust,William Oppenheimer,Andre Dubus,Tom Tolnay,Alfred P Ingegno Jr

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Four Sad Tales

Leslie in California, Final Grace, Happily Ever After & Window

By: Roger Armbrust,William Oppenheimer,Andre Dubus,Tom Tolnay,Alfred P Ingegno Jr

Four Sad Tales consists of four individual, small hand-made books, each with a single short-short story by a different writer, & each bound in different, fine print materials. These books constitute BBP's 'Brief Book' series. LESLIE IN CALIFORNIA, typeset, printed & bound by hand, is a short-short story by Andre Dubus: The wages of violence in marriage. Signed & numbered. Limited to 300 copies. Paper: $9.00. FINAL GRACE, made entirely by hand - typesetting, printing & binding, is a short-short story by Roger Armbrust: How the last people on earth face their fate. Signed & numbered. 250 limited edition copies. Paper: $9.00 HAPPILY EVER AFTER, a handcrafted edition, is a short-short story by Tom Tolnay: The ironies of aging. Original art printed in maroon. Limited to 300, numbered & signed by author & artist Alfred P. Ingegno, Jr. Paper: $9.00. WINDOW, a hand-made book, is a short-short story by William Oppenheimer: The poignant indelibility of lost love. Limited to 250. Signed & numbered. Paper: $9.00.

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0913559040

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9780913559048

Dancing After Hours

Stories

By: Andre Dubus

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Dancing After Hours

Stories

By: Andre Dubus

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year From 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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Vintage

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0307801918

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9780307801913

Townie

A Memoir

By: Andre Dubus

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Townie

A Memoir

By: Andre Dubus

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Dirty Love

By: Andre Dubus III

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Dirty Love

By: Andre Dubus III

In this heartbreakingly beautiful book of disillusioned intimacy and persistent yearning, beloved and celebrated author Andre Dubus III explores the bottomless needs and stubborn weaknesses of people seeking gratification in food and sex, work and love. 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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0393241335

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9780393241334

Bluesman

A Novel

By: Andre Dubus

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Bluesman

A Novel

By: Andre Dubus

To Leo Suther, a harmonica is the harp of the gods and 1967 is the year he turns 18. To Leo Suther, life is simple. But when he discovers that his girlfriend's father is a communist and civil rights organizer and that the war in Vietnam isn't uncontested, he feels his existence changing.

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Jonathan Cape

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0099426897

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9780099426899

Selected Stories

By: Andre Dubus

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Selected Stories

By: Andre Dubus

Twenty-three unforgettable short stories from one of America’s most celebrated literary masters. John Updike once said of his friend and fellow writer Andre Dubus: “[He] is a shrewd student of people who come to accept pain as a fair price for pleasure, and to view right and wrong as a matter of degree.” Dubus’s characters are depicted in all their imperfection, but with the author’s requisite tenderness and compassion. After all, they are just as human as we are, and there is much to learn from their complicated, tragic, irrepressible lives. Including such acclaimed masterworks as ‘A Father’s Story’, ‘Townies’, ‘The Winter Father’, and ‘Killings’, the short stories and novellas compiled here represent the best work of one of our most accomplished and acutely sensitive authors. Dubus’s Selected Stories is an anthology unmatched in its collective portrayal of the human condition. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Andre Dubus including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s estate.

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Open Road Media

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1453299505

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9781453299500

Broken Vessels

Essays

By: Andre Dubus

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Broken Vessels

Essays

By: Andre Dubus

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1453299661

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Voices from the Moon

A Novel

By: Andre Dubus

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Voices from the Moon

A Novel

By: Andre Dubus

From the acclaimed author of ‘A Father’s Story’: A boy looks to the Catholic Church for understanding as his family weathers two failed marriages. Voices from the Moon opens amidst the fallout of Stowe family patriarch Greg’s divorce from his wife, Joan; and shortly after, that of their eldest son, Larry, from his wife, Brenda. On the verge of adolescence, young Richie Stowe grapples to make sense of these events and their consequences, and seeks solace in the church. As the family attempts to mend itself and move forward, its members are forced to reconcile their feelings of betrayal with their enduring love for one another. Masterfully related from the alternating perspectives of its six main characters, Dubus’s richly drawn novella recounts a family’s failure to abide by those laws divined and decreed, and its path to redemption via understanding and forgiveness. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Andre Dubus including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s estate.

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1453299386

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9781453299388

Finding a Girl in America

And Other Stories

By: Andre Dubus

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Finding a Girl in America

And Other Stories

By: Andre Dubus

The third heartbreaking collection of short stories from the acclaimed master who is “here not to offer comfort but truth” (The New Yorker). The ominous tone of this exquisite collection is established at its onset, as a bereaved father stalks the man who murdered his son. Three stories later, a college student suffers a violent death at the hands of her boyfriend. And in later episodes, relationships falter and fail, not all fatalities being of the flesh. Featuring some of the Dubus canon’s most haunting narratives, Finding a Girl in America is a remarkable lesson in the depiction of the darker side of human nature. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Andre Dubus including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s estate.

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1453299629

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9781453299623

Ghost Dogs: On Killers and Kin

By: Andre Dubus III

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Ghost Dogs: On Killers and Kin

By: Andre Dubus III

From the literary master and best-selling author of Townie, reflections on a life of challenges, contradictions, and fulfillments. During childhood summers in Louisiana, Andre Dubus III’s grandfather taught him that men’s work is hard. As an adult, 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, Dubus worked—at being a better worker and a better human being. In Ghost Dogs, Dubus’s nonfiction prowess is on full display in his retelling of his own successes, failures, triumphs, and pain. In his longest essay, “If I Owned a Gun,” Dubus reflects on the empowerment and shame he felt in keeping a gun, and his decision, ultimately, to give it up. Elsewhere, he writes of a 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. Drawing upon kindred literary spirits 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 the essay.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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1324000457

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9781324000457

House of Sand and Fog: A Novel

By: Andre Dubus III

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House of Sand and Fog: A Novel

By: Andre Dubus III

The National Book Award finalist, Oprah’s Book Club pick, #1 New York Times bestseller, and basis for the Oscar-nominated motion picture. A recent immigrant from the Middle East—a former colonel in the Iranian Air Force—yearns to restore his family’s dignity in California. A recovering alcoholic and addict down on her luck struggles to hold onto the one thing she has left?her home. And her lover, a married cop, is driven to extremes to win her love. Andre Dubus III’s unforgettable characters—people with ordinary flaws, looking for a small piece of ground to stand on—careen toward inevitable conflict. Their tragedy paints a shockingly true picture of the country we live in today.

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0393070352

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9780393070354

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