Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780330320092
Format: Import
ISBN: 0330320092
Label: Picador
Manufacturer: Picador
Number Of Pages: 224
Publication Date: December 02, 1994
Publisher: Picador
Studio: Picador
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Rating:  - Genius
This book is worth it for the essay "On Charon's Wharf" alone. I can't recommend it highly enough.
If you're a Dubus reader, this is the motherlode.
Rating: - Voice of the heart
Andre Dubus died in 1999, at the age of 63. He wrote short stories and essays, in a steady, straightforward style that often seems to be with the voice of the heart itself. This collection of essays, written between the years 1977 and 1990, tells of his boyhood in Louisiana, his years as a marine, and his life as a student, writer, teacher, husband and father.
He is a mixture of a very proud man who is also humbled by what reflection reveals to him of life's meaning. A practicing Catholic, ... Read More
Rating:  - For all of us who are Broken and Seeking Wholeness
Andre Dubus' writing is like having a conversation with an old friend. He tells it "like it is." He invites us into his life and the broken people who are present there. He holds nothing back, leaving us to witness his brokenness without any regret on his part. If you've never read essays, or have never enjoyed them before, I highly recommend this book as well as Dubus' "Meditations from a Movable Chair." These two works are wonderful reading! They both move quickly and the literary form of the ... Read More
Rating: - A Deeper Look
This book is a revealing look at one of the best writer's writers working today. If you've read his fiction, you know Dubus is one of the best male writers writing women characters today, always a fascinating accomplishment and this book reveals more of the man behind the sensitivity in his fiction. Includes itimate details of his life after the tragedy that changed everything.
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