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Quattordici storie di uomini e donne e famiglie dentro la vita americana, in lotta con pregiudizi e solitudine, feriti dalla perdita dell'amore o dall'impossibilità di accettarlo - ma capaci di trovare un'estrema luminosa redenzione. Dubus descrive il microcosmo di ciò che alla gente succede mentre parla o cammina, l'azione emotiva dentro una semplice azione. Una continua ricerca di luce e salvezza, di uno spiraglio in quelle che sono le barri...

From the author of the New York Times bestseller and Oprahs Book Club selection House of Sand and Fog a big-hearted, painful novel

After their parents divorced in the 1970s, Andre Dubus III and his three siblings grew up with their exhausted working mother in a depressed Massachusetts mill town saturated with drugs and crime. To protect himself and those he loved from street violence, Andre learned to use his fists so well that he was even scared of himself. He was on a fast track to getting killedor killing someone elseor to beatings-for-pay as a boxer. Nearby, his fathe...

Florida, Anfang September 2001: Die junge Stripperin April nimmt ihre dreijährige Tochter Franny mit zur Arbeit im Puma Club. Jean, ihre einsame alte Vermieterin mit dem wunderschönen Garten voller Blumen, liebt die Kleine von ganzem Herzen und passt sonst immer auf sie auf, doch heute ist sie wegen einer Panikattacke im Krankenhaus. In dieser Nacht hat April einen ungewöhnlichen Kunden: Bassam, einen jungen Araber, der gleichzeitig hasserfüll...

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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...

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Il tragico duello tra un uomo e una donna, tra due vite e culture diverse. Tutto accade a San Francisco, nella stagione calda in cui la nebbia avvolge la baia e nasconde la linea dell'oceano. Kathy Nicolo è arrivata in California dalla costa orientale insieme al marito, ma da quando lui se n'è andato, senza lasciare traccia, lei è sola e smarrita, senza amici né famiglia, tormentata dall'incubo di ricadere nella dipendenza dall'alcol, obbligat...

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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, Ha...

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 ...

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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...

All of Dubus' writerly strengths are exhibited in this fourth, most impressive collection of his stories - as are some of his less significant weaknesses. Again he displays a knack for images tailored to the status and situation of the character: in "The Pretty Girl, " a young woman takes revenge after being raped by her ex-husband - a man whose thoughts are captured in vivid plain-poetry. ("There are things you can do in the daytime that make...

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.

The seven stories collected here-including "Killings, ” the basis for Todd Field's award-winning film In the Bedroom-showcase legendary writer Andre Dubus's sheer narrative mastery in a book of quietly staggering emotional power.A father in mourning contemplates the unthinkable as the only way to allay his grief. A boy must learn to care for his younger brother when their mother leaves the family. A young woman who has never lacked lovers desp...

The twenty-five luminous and intensely personal essays in this collection are, like Andre Dubus's celebrated short stories, a testament to the author's vulnerability, vision, and indestructible faith. Since losing one leg and the use of the other in a 1986 accident, Dubus has experienced despair, learned acceptance, and, finally, found joy in the sacramental magic of even the most quotidian tasks.Whether he is writing of the relationship with ...