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Original Title:	Selected Stories
ISBN:	0679767304 (ISBN13: 9780679767305)
Edition Language:	English

Selected Stories Paperback | Pages: 476 pages

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These twenty-three stories represent the best work of one of the finest and most emotionally revealing writers in America. Andre Dubus treats his characters--a bereaved father stalking his son's killer; a woman crying alone by her television late at night; a devout teenager writing in the coils of faith and sexuality; a father's story of limitless love for his daughter--with respect and compassion. He turns fiction into an act of witness.

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Title	:	Selected Stories
Author	:	Andre Dubus
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 476 pages
Published	:	December 4th 1995 by Vintage (first published 1988)
Categories	:	Short Stories. Fiction. Literature

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Some of these are five plus stars: Miranda over the Valley; the Pretty Girl; the Fat Girl; Rose; Adultery; A Father's story.

This is simply my most favorite short story collection ("A Father's Story" - read it) by one of my favorite authors.

Really great stuff, I read his kid's book a few back and enjoyed it as well. Dubus' short stories (i guess that's all he wrote?) I had never read him before but I know he was a contemporary of Yates so I figured he'd have some nice early baby-boom misery in his stories. There wasn't a distinctive style that stuck out (like a Saunders or a Carver), the stories we just extremely well written. One that really stuck out was "adultery part 3." - maybe the only story not set in Louisiana or NE Mass.

Dubus is often called a "writer's writer," which in general seems a dubious compliment. Are writers truly capable of identifying subtleties in a colleague's work that the average reader can't? When a writer is granted this appellation, I think it's more likely his work is viewed as stylish but slow-paced, elliptical, the equivalent of an art house film or avant-garde play. A select few--the cultured--will enjoy it; the rest of us stumble through wishing we were reading John Grisham. This is

This is an outstanding collection.Andre Dubus II. Holy freaking WOW. What an incredible writer.The first story I read in this book was "The Winter Father." It turned out to be a very difficult story for me. I worried I couldn't keep reading this book, my stress level hit such a high level. Because I knew, with each page I turned, that the author was writing his own life when he penned this story. I read Andre Dubus II as the character of the divorced father in this particular tale, struggling to

I know that he's gotten a lot of acclaim. I just can't find room in my heart for this, the only book of his I've read. Pointless character studies abound, mostly they are slice of life stories. Nicely written at times, but still...gah. There is one story about a janitor that is perhaps one of the most boring things I've ever read. Is he lucid? Mostly. He is the next Chekhov? No. NO.

Dubus's acute eye pinpoints human behavior, cleanly and realistically. Credit has been given to Peter Yates, his mentor in Iowa, for development of his spare style, nailing with a few words situations that others have spent pages on. The writer he reminds me most of is Raymond Carver -- each was a chronicler of his age, but their stories are universal, never stale.