House of Sand and Fog
| Author | : Andre Dubus |
| Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
| Total Pages | : 460 |
| Release | : 1999 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0393046974 |
The Oprah Book Club selection for November 2000.
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The Garden of Last Days: A Novel
| Author | : Andre Dubus III |
| Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
| Total Pages | : 538 |
| Release | : 2009-06-01 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0393068846 |
“So good, so damn compulsively readable, that I can hardly believe it.” —Stephen King, Entertainment Weekly In his stunning follow-up to the #1 best-selling House of Sand and Fog, Andre Dubus draws us into the lives of three deeply flawed, driven people whose paths intersect on a September night in Florida. April, a stripper, has brought her daughter to work at the Puma Club for Men. There she encounters Bassam, a foreign client both remote and too personal, and free with his money. Meanwhile, another man, AJ, has been thrown out of the club, and he’s drunk and angry and lonely. From these explosive elements comes a relentless, raw, and page-turning narrative that seizes the reader by the throat with psychological tension, depth, and realism.
Gone So Long: A Novel
| Author | : Andre Dubus III |
| Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
| Total Pages | : 373 |
| Release | : 2018-10-02 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0393244113 |
"Taut with tension.… [E]nding with a hint of hope."—Rob Merrill, Associated Press Cathartic, affirming, and steeped in the empathy and precise observations of character for which Dubus is celebrated, Gone So Long explores how the wounds of the past afflict the people we become. Gone So Long is a riveting family drama about an ex-con who did time for murder, the estranged daughter he hasn’t seen in forty years, and the grandmother angry enough to kill him. A profound exploration of the struggle between the selves we wish to be, and the ones—shaped by chance and circumstance, as well as character—that we can’t escape, it confirms Andre Dubus’s reputation as a novelist whose “compassion is unsentimental and unblinking, total and unwavering” (Paul Harding).
Dirty Love
| Author | : Andre Dubus |
| Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
| Total Pages | : 304 |
| Release | : 2013-10-07 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0393064654 |
A collection of short stories examining the lives of suburbanites seeking solace and gratification in food, sex, work, and love.
Townie
| Author | : Andre Dubus |
| Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
| Total Pages | : 401 |
| Release | : 2012-02-06 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0393340678 |
I've never read a better or more serious meditation on violence, its sources, consequences, and, especially, its terrifying pleasures, than "Townie." It's a brutal and, yes, thrilling memoir that sheds real light on the creative process of two of our best writers, Andre Dubus III and his famous, much revered father. You'll never read the work of either man in quite the same way afterward. You may not view the world in quite the same way either.--Richard Russo, author of "Empire Falls."
Bluesman
| Author | : Andre Dubus III |
| Publisher | : Vintage |
| Total Pages | : 338 |
| Release | : 2001-02-13 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0375725164 |
With House of Sand and Fog, his National Book Award-nominated novel, Andre Dubus III demonstrated his mastery of the complexities of character and desire. In this earlier novel he captures a roiling time in American history and the coming-of-age of a boy who must decide between desire, ambition, and duty. In the summer of 1967, Leo Suther has one more year of high school to finish and a lot more to learn. He's in love with the beautiful Allie Donovan who introduces him to her father, Chick — a construction foreman and avowed Communist. Soon Leo finds himself in the midst of a consuming love affair and an intense testing of his political values. Chick's passionate views challenge Leo's perspective on the escalating Vietnam conflict and on just where he stands in relation to the new people in his life. Throughout his — and the nation's — unforgettable "summer of love," Leo is learning the language of the blues, which seem to speak to the mourning he feels for his dead mother, his occasionally distant father, and the youth which is fast giving way to manhood.
The Cage Keeper
| Author | : Andre Dubus III |
| Publisher | : Vintage |
| Total Pages | : 173 |
| Release | : 2007-12-18 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0307428230 |
Passion and betrayal, violent desperation, ambivalent love that hinges on hatred, and the quest for acceptance by those who stand on the edge of society-these are the hard-hitting themes of a stunningly crafted first collection of stories by the bestselling author of House of Sand and Fog. A vigilant young man working in a halfway house finds himself unable to defend against the rage of one of the inmates in the title story. In "White Trees, Hammer Moon," a man soon to leave home for prison finds himself as unprepared for a family camping trip in the mountains of New Hampshire as he has been for most things in his life. And in the award-winning "Forky," an ex-con is haunted by the punishment he receives just as he is being released into the world. With an incisive ability to inhabit the lives of his characters, Dubus travels deep into the heart of the elusive American dream.
The Septembers of Shiraz
| Author | : Dalia Sofer |
| Publisher | : Harper Collins |
| Total Pages | : 398 |
| Release | : 2009-10-13 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0061808660 |
In the aftermath of the Iranian revolution, rare-gem dealer Isaac Amin is arrested, wrongly accused of being a spy. Terrified by his disappearance, his family must reconcile a new world of cruelty and chaos with the collapse of everything they have known. As Isaac navigates the tedium and terrors of prison, forging tenuous trusts, his wife feverishly searches for him, suspecting, all the while, that their once-trusted housekeeper has turned on them and is now acting as an informer. And as his daughter, in a childlike attempt to stop the wave of baseless arrests, engages in illicit activities, his son, sent to New York before the rise of the Ayatollahs, struggles to find happiness even as he realizes that his family may soon be forced to embark on a journey of incalculable danger. A page-turning literary debut, The Septembers of Shiraz simmers with questions of identity, alienation, and love, not simply for a spouse or a child, but for all the intangible sights and smells of the place we call home.
Adultery & Other Choices
| Author | : Andre Dubus |
| Publisher | : Open Road Media |
| Total Pages | : 169 |
| Release | : 2010-11-23 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 145329970X |
This “haunting and subtle” collection of short stories offers a compassionate portrayal of man’s journey from childhood to maturity (Publishers Weekly). For the adolescents in Part One of Andre Dubus’s Adultery & Other Choices, youth is characterized by humiliation, alienation, and disappointment: A son struggles to connect with his distant father, and later he must overcome a schoolyard bully. Then, for the soldiers that inhabit Part Two, service is synonymous with sacrifice, as marriages and limbs falter and fail. But for the bitterly lonely wife of a promiscuous professor, a hopeless affair with a dying ex-priest provides her with the strength necessary to retake control of her life. In the aptly titled follow-up to Separate Flights, Dubus expertly traces the arc of human life, and honors the men and women he portrays with such faithful veracity. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Andre Dubus including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s estate.
