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Adultery and Other Choices

4.2/5 ( ratings)

"The title story alone will make it worth your while to go out and get the book."--The New York Times Book Review

This second book of short stories by Andre Dubus established him as a master of the genre in the lineage of Hemingway and Chekhov, even as its gritty truths and spiritual attentiveness served to set his voice apart. The opening stories focus on the fragile nature of youth, exemplified in struggles with a father, a friend, an enemy. In part two, Dubus contends with the military, the police, and fate--and then leaves us with the most wrenching of all emotional challenges in the final novella, Adultery. Poignant as parables, alive as fiction, and compelling as pure narrative, these familiar stories never fail to entertain while, at the same time, leaving the reader breathless with the immediacy and depth of real life in the real America.

Language: English

Pages: 190

Format: Paperback

Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher

Release: September 01, 1994

ISBN: 0879232846

ISBN 13: 9780879232849

Adultery and Other Choices

4.2/5 ( ratings)

"The title story alone will make it worth your while to go out and get the book."--The New York Times Book Review

This second book of short stories by Andre Dubus established him as a master of the genre in the lineage of Hemingway and Chekhov, even as its gritty truths and spiritual attentiveness served to set his voice apart. The opening stories focus on the fragile nature of youth, exemplified in struggles with a father, a friend, an enemy. In part two, Dubus contends with the military, the police, and fate--and then leaves us with the most wrenching of all emotional challenges in the final novella, Adultery. Poignant as parables, alive as fiction, and compelling as pure narrative, these familiar stories never fail to entertain while, at the same time, leaving the reader breathless with the immediacy and depth of real life in the real America.

Language: English

Pages: 190

Format: Paperback

Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher

Release: September 01, 1994

ISBN: 0879232846

ISBN 13: 9780879232849

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