The focus of this collection, which includes the often praised tale "A Father's Story," as well as the novella "the Pretty Girl," is on the twisting deformations of love, on domestic disturbances, and on marriages whose sanctity can no longer bind them.
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" 'The Pretty Girl' . . . may be the most compelling and suspenseful work of fiction [Dubus] has written." --Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Times Book Review
"For the lyricism and directness of his language, the richness and precision of his observation, he is among the best short-story writers in America."
Judith Levine, The Village Voice
"For the lyricism and directness of his language, the richness and precision of his observation, he is among the best short-story writers in America."
Judith Levine, The Village Voice
"Mr. Dubus 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; without moralizing, he suggests that their self-inflicted punishments are often worse that what a just court, or a just God, would decree." --John Updike, The New Yorker
"It is a world of secrets," says the narrator of 'A Father's Story.' Andre Dubus's fine new collection is made of those secrets, observed with an art that is luminous with honesty and generosity. Dubus is interested in essential things in the shadowy powers that circle our lives and the slender resources of faith and love with which we try to keep them at bay." --Tobias Wolff
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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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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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A Major Collection,
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Having read all of Dubus's collections, this is my third favorite, after Adultery and Separate Flights. In "A Father's Story" Dubus once again delves into Catholicism and delivers a poignant story of a man struggling between his love for God and his own daughter. The strongest piece in this collection is the turbulent novella "The Pretty Girl". With a quick and varied sentence structure, Dubus again proves he is a sentence level writer; also, the switch from 3rd to 1st person throughout is an evocative and pervasive tool. This novella is show's Dubus's believe that lives can suddenly change, often with sudden violence, sometimes with grace.
0 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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Great writer,
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Get his collected stories. Then, after that, like me, you'll probably wanna get every book separately. Highly enjoyable reading for the "literary" reader.
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