On its publication, SEPARATE FLIGHTS won the Boston Globe's Lawrence L. Winship Award as the outstanding book of New England origin. This Dubus sampler includes a novella and seven short stories. Themes range from violence and confrontation to tenderness and affection. To quote from the Los Angeles Times, "Dubus has been compared with Chekov...this collection restores faith in the survival of the short story."
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Andre Dubus (1936-1999) is considered one of the greatest American short story writers of the twentieth century. His collections of short fiction, which include Adultery & Other Choices (1977), The Times Are Never So Bad (1983), and The Last Worthless Evening (1986), are notable for their spare prose and illuminative, albeit subtle, insights into the human heart. He is often compared to Anton Chekhov and revered as a "writer's writer."
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I have read all of Andre Dubus's work and literally enjoyed every story and novella. This collection, Separate Flights, stands as one of my favorites. The title story "Separate Flights" and "If They Knew Yvonne" dazzle as masterpieces; the latter story made Dubus somewhat of a maverick to the Catholic church; and yet, the reader still feels he writes out of love for Catholicism, which lends an ageless quality to the fiction.
Pick up this collection, allow yourself to be overwhelmed by Dubus's portraits of family, childhood, violence, and love. Do not his exquisite sentence variety and structure. He's truly a writer's writer. Dubus writes of the human experience because there is no greater calling; he reminds us what it is to be human.
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