Born on this day – Andre Dubus:

Andre Dubus

Writer

August 11, 1936 – February 24, 1999

Recommended reading:

Andre Dubus: Selected Stories

By Andre Dubus.

Published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

First published 1975.

Paperback.

ISBN-10: 0679767304

ISBN-13: 9780679767305

Description:

"Stunning…a fine, deeply rewarding collection from one of this country’s ablest writers." – Anne Tyler.

"Dubus’s characters resemble those of Raymond Carver...but the stories stand alone in their idiosyncratic spiritual cast, occasionally religious, more often expressive of devotion to the people he lives among." – New York Times Book Review.

A breaved father stalks his son’s killer. A woman cries alone by her television screen. A devout teenager wrestles with his faith and sexuality. Here, in these twenty-three stories, Andre Dubus turns fiction into an act of compassion. For readers new to Dubus, this is the perfect starting point. For fans of his, this is an essential, must-have collection.

Credits:

Books:

Adultery and Other Choices (1980); Blue Collar, White Collar, No Collar (2011); Boston Noir 2 / Akashic Noir (2012); Broken Vessels (1991); Dancing After Hours (1996); Finding a Girl in America (1980); In the Bedroom (2002); Land Where My Fathers Died (1984); Louisiana Stories (1990); Meditations from a Movable Chair (1998); New Stories from the South: The Year's Best, 1987 (1987); Selected Stories (1988); Separate Flights (1982); Stories of the Modern South (1995)The Best American Short Stories 1970 (1970); The Best American Short Stories 1975 (1975); The Best American Short Stories 1981 (1981); The Best American Short Stories 1984 (1984); The Colonel's Wife (2015); The Cross Country Runner (2018); The Last Worthless Evening (1986); The Lieutenant (1986); The New Granta Book of the American Short Story (2007); The Picador Book of Crime Writing (1993); The Times Are Never So Bad (1983); The Winter Father (2018); Voices from the Moon (1984); We Don't Live Here Anymore (1984); Why I Like This Story (2019).

Movies and television:

A Year in the Life (1987); Delivering (1993); His Lover (2017); In the Bedroom (2001); Literary Visions (1992); We Don't Live Here Anymore (2004).