We Don't Live Here Anymore - Dubus, Andre
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¿Andre Dubus, one of the 20th century¿s most gifted short story writers.¿¿ The New York Times When Andre Dubus¿s first book of stories, Separate Flights arrived in 1975, it was immediately celebrated as the arrival of a new and important voice in American fiction. Two years later came Adultery and Other Choices and Dubus¿ reputation rose even higher. Both books are now collected in We Don¿t Live Here Anymore, the first in the three-volume Collected Short Stories and Novellas by Andre Dubus. ¿The stories are about how people must make accommodations once they find out there¿s no winning,¿ Ann…mehr

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¿Andre Dubus, one of the 20th century¿s most gifted short story writers.¿¿ The New York Times When Andre Dubus¿s first book of stories, Separate Flights arrived in 1975, it was immediately celebrated as the arrival of a new and important voice in American fiction. Two years later came Adultery and Other Choices and Dubus¿ reputation rose even higher. Both books are now collected in We Don¿t Live Here Anymore, the first in the three-volume Collected Short Stories and Novellas by Andre Dubus. ¿The stories are about how people must make accommodations once they find out there¿s no winning,¿ Ann Beattie writes in her introduction. While the collection¿s opening stories focus on the fragile nature of youth, later stories shift to darker struggles of adulthood, such as in ¿Andromache¿¿Dubus¿s first story to appear in The New Yorker¿which traces the aftermath of a tragic death during wartime. 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.
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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.