Andre Dubus
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Dubus's second collection of short fiction: a compassionate portrayal of man's journey from childhood to maturity. For the adolescents in Part One of Andre Dubus's Adultery & Other Choices, youth is characterized by humiliation, alienation, and disappointment: A son struggles to connect with his distant father, and later he must overcome a schoolyard bully. Then, for the soldiers that inhabit Part Two, service is synonymous with sacrifice, as marriages...
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Yet another tour de force from an American master of fiction In his fifth collection of short fiction, Andre Dubus exhibits his remarkable storytelling range. In "Deaths at Sea," two naval officers, one black and one white, must come to terms with a history and an institution steeped in racism. "After the Game" tells the story of a Hispanic shortstop on a major-league baseball team who suddenly and without explanation loses his mind. And in "Rose,"...
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Hank e Jack sono amici dai tempi della scuola e tuti i pomeriggi si trovano a correre insieme dopo il lavoro. Hank non ha mai creduto nella monogamia e vive a modo suo il matrimonio con Edith; Jack ha sposato Terry, la ragazza pi carina che avesse mai visto, ma ora crede di non amarla pi. Anche per Edith e Terry il matrimonio non si è rivelato all'altezza delle aspettative. Per tutti i protagonisti di queste storie il tradimento sembra la via di...
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Quattordici storie di uomini e donne e famiglie dentro la vita americana, in lotta con pregiudizi e solitudine, feriti dalla perdita dell'amore o dall'impossibilità di accettarlo – ma capaci di trovare un'estrema luminosa redenzione. Dubus descrive il microcosmo di ciò che alla gente succede mentre parla o cammina, l'azione emotiva dentro una semplice azione. Una continua ricerca di luce e salvezza, di uno spiraglio in quelle che sono le barriere...
5) Vasi rotti
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Scritti tra il 1977 e il 1990, questi saggi rivelano la forza spirituale e la prosa lirica che hanno fatto di Andre Dubus un autore il cui talento è ormai riconosciuto in tutto il mondo. Personale ma mai indulgente, sensibile ma mai sentimentale, Dubus si racconta: la giovinezza cattolica nella Louisiana di cultura cajun, l'amore per il baseball, le fortune e le incertezze nella precarietà di una vita di scrittore. Una voce intensa e commovente,...
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In his third collection, Andre Dubus plumbs the dark depths of the human condition. 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...
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Pubblicato nel 1977, Adulterio e altre scelte è il secondo libro di racconti di Andre Dubus. Celebrato da scrittori come Stephen King, Kurt Vonnegut, Richard Yates e Joyce Carol Oates, Dubus si conferma un maestro della short story.
La raccolta è divisa in tre parti.
Nella prima Dubus esplora la giovinezza e i rapporti degli adolescenti con padri, famiglie, amici, con la consueta attenzione e tenerezza per i difetti di un genitore o per lo spaesamento...
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Dubus's masterful first collection, in which he brings to life the human condition - in all its sorrow and beauty. For the men and women in Andre Dubus's poignant debut collection, life and love are not without their tribulations. The devout endeavor to reconcile the demands of their faith with their most basic human inclinations. A doctor is confronted with his limitations as a man. Husbands and wives seek solace in the beds of others, even as their...
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The reflective essays of one of America's most accomplished authors. Andre Dubus is celebrated for his ability to depict the subtlest of human emotions in his characters, and when he turns the microscope on himself, the resulting insights are no less illuminative. Intimate and expressive, 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...
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Andre Dubus si è meritato un posto di tutto rispetto nella letteratura americana per l'eloquenza, la passione e la forza: questa raccolta, una delle sue pi belle, contiene quattro novelle, o racconti lunghi, e due short stories. La novella d'apertura Morti in mare è ambientata in Marina, ed è la storia di due giovani ufficiali, uno nero e uno bianco, che si scoprono amici sullo sfondo del razzismo degli anni '60. Mentre Rose – uno dei suoi racconti...
11) Voci dalla Luna
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"È colpa del divorzio, aveva detto il padre la sera prima. Queste furono le prime parole che Richie Stowe ricordò quella mattina d'estate quando si svegliò." Così si apre questo struggente Voci dalla luna, ritratto di una famiglia divisa e unita da un intreccio di conflitti e profondi affetti. Un padre, una madre che andandosene ha scelto la solitudine, un figlio dodicenne al tempo stesso deciso a diventare prete e innamorato di una vicina di...
12) Voli separati
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Voli separati parla della ricerca interiore e di come questa ricerca si faccia ancora pi intensa quando a prevalere sono sconforto e paura. "A volte," scrive Dubus in una lettera a un aspirante scrittore, "le storie diventano come ombre e luci dello spirito. Ci saranno sempre ombre nella tua vita, ma spero che continuerai a muoverti verso la luce." Questa è la prima grande raccolta di racconti, storie delicate e durissime che parlano di rapporti...
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While the title novella of Dubus' Finding a Girl in America returns to the somewhat off-the-rails literary life of Hank Allison, the collection's opening story strikes a much darker tone: "Killings"-the basis of the Academy Award-nominated film In the Bedroom-is a swift tale of revenge that leaves readers wondering what they might do in the name of family love. Dubus' prowess with narrative compression is on full display in the story "Waiting": the...
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In the early 1970s, literary journals that contained Andre Dubus' short stories were passed around among admiring readers. When his debut collection, Separate Flights, arrived in 1975, it was immediately celebrated and won the Boston Globe's Laurence L. & Thomas Winship / PEN New England Award. The collection includes the novella We Don't Live Here Anymore, which served as the basis for the 2004 film of the same title (nominated for the Grand Jury...
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The Cross Country Runner brings together Voices from the Moon, his longest, most masterful novella, and The Last Worthless Evening, Andre Dubus' fifth collection of short stories and novellas, along with previously uncollected stories and a new introduction by PEN/Faulkner Award-winning author 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 shows Dubus at the height...
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Opportunity knocks for an Iranian immigrant working on a road crew in California, a former colonel in the Iranian Air Force under the Shah, when the county offers for sale a seized house at a bargain price. It will serve as a launching pad for his real-estate business which he hopes will restore his family's dignity. When the county discovers it made an error, the alcoholic, drug-addicted woman who owned the house demands its return, but the Iranian...
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[2023]
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After a bad fall, Tom, in constant pain and addicted to painkillers at the cost of his relationships with his wife and son, realizes he can never work again and ends up in subsidized housing, where he hatches a scheme to commit convenience-check fraud with neighbors he considers lowlifes.
20) Selected stories
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Twenty-three of the best stories by one of America's finest practitioners of short fiction. 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 human just as...
