Selected Stories
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 'Killi…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4532-9950-0
- EAN: 9781453299500
- Produktnummer: 19644294
- Verlag: Open Road Media
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Seitenangabe: 476 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 3'041 KB
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Award-winning author Andre Dubus (1936-1999) has been hailed as one of the best American short story writers of the twentieth century. Dubus's collections of short fiction include Separate Flights (1975), Adultery & Other Choices (1977), and Dancing After Hours (1996), which was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. Another collection, Finding a Girl in America, features the story Killings, which was adapted into the critically acclaimed film In the Bedroom (2001), starring Sissy Spacek, Tom Wilkinson, and Marisa Tomei.
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