Adultery & Other Choices
Stories
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 and limbs falter and fail. But for the bitterly lonely wife of a promiscuous professor, a hopeless affair with a dying ex-priest provides her with the strength necessary to retake control of…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4532-9970-8
- EAN: 9781453299708
- Produktnummer: 22330150
- Verlag: Open Road Media
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Seitenangabe: 178 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 4'995 KB
Über den Autor
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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