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Original Title:	Finding a Girl in America: A Novella and Ten Short Stories
ISBN:	0879233931 (ISBN13: 9780879233938)
Edition Language:	English

Finding a Girl in America Paperback | Pages: 192 pages

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Andre Dubus's third book of stories (now included in his Collected Short Stories & Novellas ) includes the novella, Finding a Girl in America which continues the life of Hank Allison, a man haunted by his failures as a husband, his concern for his daughter, and his need for a new marriage that can survive his obsessive writer's absorption with himself. Other stories including Killings, a swift and wholly successful tale of revenge; Townies, about a young man whose affair with an undergraduate girl ends in deadly fury; At Saint Croix, the story of a man and woman, both divorced, whose Caribbean spring vacation fails to exorcise his ghosts; The Pitcher, where a baseball player can manage his arm but not his wife; and The Winter Father, a story of overwhelming tenderness dealing with a divorced father and his weekend attempts to re-establish contact with his two children. Subtle and haunting, Dubus concentrates his Chekhovian attention on the residual anguish and momentary elation of deep attachments. Nothing in current American writing seems more genuine than this writer's fictions.

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Title	:	Finding a Girl in America
Author	:	Andre Dubus
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 192 pages
Published	:	September 1st 1994 by David R. Godine Publisher (first published 1980)
Categories	:	Short Stories. Fiction. Literary Fiction. American. Americana

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I don't want to give too much info. I give this book a 4 because it is beautifully written. Very provocative. It leaves one considering morality, objectification, internal strife and the possibility that no one is above heinous actions.

Ho letto questo libro incuriosito da qualcuno che diceva che Dubus è più bravo di Carver. Personalmente, trovo quest'ultimo ancora imbattibile.Dubus è bravo a caratterizzare i personaggi ma mi infastidisce che in ogni racconto ci metta del sesso, come se fosse più forte di lui... L'unico racconto che mi ha davvero folgorato è quello che dà il titolo alla raccolta.

IT WAS LIKE TAKING THREE VALIUMS BUT NOT IN A FUN WAY.

This compilation of short stories is most a recount of feelings or nostalgia. Rather than connecting with characters, Dubus connects the reader with raw feelings, emotions, evocations and sensations of sadness, loss, nostalgia, joy and reconciliation. Enjoyable, especially the last 2 stories "The Winter Father" and "Finding a girl in America".

I'd read several of the pieces in here before (mostly in Selected Stories, and I'm obsessed with "Townies," so I just read the ones I hadn't gotten to yet. Just finished up with "Delivering," which has a slew of standby Dubus devicesparents on the verge of divorce, fishing, going to the beach, a cute girl at the donut shopbut manages to be wholly original despite all that. I could read his stuff all day.

Vorrei iniziare questo commento citando un passo di "Alta fedeltà" di Nick Hornby:La gente si preoccupa perché i ragazzini giocano con le armi, perché gli adolescenti guardano film violenti; c'è la paura che bei giovani finisca per imporsi una specie di cultura della violenza. Nessuno si preoccupa dei ragazzini che ascoltano migliaia di canzoni [...] che parlano di cuori spezzati, e abbandoni e dolore e sofferenza e perdita. Le persone più infelici che conosco, dico in senso amoroso, [...] sono

"Dubus is one of the few writers today who can take the top of you head off with a word, a line, a situation." Playboy