The National Book Award finalist, Oprah's Book Club pick, #1 New York Times bestseller, and basis for the Oscar-nominated motion picture."A page-turner with a beating heart."— Boston Globe"A mixture of classical tragedy perfectly imbued with film noir.... House of Sand and Fog is the work of a writer who is the real th...

"So good, so damn compulsively readable, that I can hardly believe it." —Stephen King, Entertainment WeeklyIn 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...

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.

"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 casa, una figlia comprensiva, e poi il figlio m...

This "haunting and subtle" collection of short stories offers a compassionate portrayal of man's journey from childhood to maturity ( Publishers Weekly).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 ...

A classic collection that contains some of the author's "most compelling and suspenseful" work—including 'The Pretty Girl' and 'A Father's Story' (Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Times Book Review).In his fourth collection, Andre Dubus revisits his central themes of infidelity and fallibility, exploring the minds of his characters with unflinching honesty and unfailing compassion. Set in the New England landscape, and populated by the complex, damaged indiv...

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, an...

"Taut with tension.… [E]nding with a hint of hope."—Rob Merrill, Associated PressCathartic, 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 an...

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 l...

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 umane, a costo di mentire a se stessi. "Il ...

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 e il dolore negli occhi di un ragazzin...

This first collection, from one of the most celebrated masters of the form, "restores faith in the survival of the short story" ( Los Angeles Times).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 b...