Andre Dubus

Broschiertes Buch

The Winter Father

Beschreibung

Exquisitely powerful short stories by the masterful Andre Dubus. Originally published in two volumes, The Times Are Never So Bad and Finding a Girl in America. This collection includes some of Andre Dubus¿s most celebrated stories including ¿A Father¿s Story,¿ ¿The Pretty Girl,¿ and ¿Killings¿¿the basis of the Academy Award-nominated film In the Bedroom¿a swift tale of revenge that leaves readers wondering what they might do in the name of family love. ¿Dubus¿s stories feel as fresh today as they did when I first read them, three decades ago,¿ Richard Russo writes in the introduction. ¿One reason is the delight he takes in playing off readers¿ genre expectations. Conventional robbery stories, for example, are almost always concerned with whether the thieves will get caught. Here [in `Annä] it¿s the exact opposite. Dubus doesn¿t care whether Anna and Wayne get caught; not getting caught actually deepens their predicament. Similarly, `Townies,¿ which at first appears to be the story of a murdered college girl, turns out to be about the unexpected link between the campus cop who finds her body and the boy who kills her, both of whom have been excluded from the privileged girl¿s world by virtue of their class.¿ Collected Short Stories and Novellas by Andre Dubus includes We Don¿t Live Here Anymore, The Winter Father, and The Cross Country Runner. All three contain work by an American master, perfect for anyone who loves stories of the human heart and where it can lead us.

Autor

Andre Dubus (1936¿1999) is considered among the most talented American short stories writers of his generation. Born and raised in Louisiana, he spent his adult life living and teaching in blue-collar mill towns in northern New England. Dubus¿s short stories and essays appeared in distinguished literary journals and magazines across the country, and were selected for numerous editions of the Best American Short Stories series, as well as the O. Henry Awards and Pushcart Prize anthologies. Dubus¿s work earned him MacArthur and Guggenheim fellowships, the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story, the Rea Award for the Short Story, the Jean Stein Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and nominations for a National Book Critics Circle Award and Pulitzer Prize. In addition to seven collections of stories and novellas, Dubus published one novel and two collections of essays. The award-winning films In the Bedroom and We Don't Live Here Anymore were adapted from his stories. Dubus is buried in Haverhill, Massachusetts.

Produktdetails

• Collected Short Stories and No
• Verlag: David R. Godine Publisher
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 156mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 608g
• ISBN-13: 9781567926170
• ISBN-10: 1567926177
• Artikelnr.: 52962239