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Tom Lowe's fall was catastrophic-a moment of fatigued inattention while shingling a roof leading to excruciating pain, opioid addiction, divorce and estrangement from his son. Yet Tom still considers himself a worker, unlike his shiftless neighbours in subsidised housing. And he resents the hell out of the banker and adjustable-rate mortgage responsible for foreclosure on the home he built himself. After his car is impounded, Tom stoops lower ...

During childhood summers in Louisiana, Andre's grandfather taught him that men's work is hard. Ever after, whether tracking down a drug lord in Mexico as a bounty hunter or grappling with privilege while living with a rich girlfriend in New York City, Andre worked-at being a better worker and a better human being. In his longest essay, "If I Owned a Gun, " he reflects on the empowerment and shame he felt in keeping a gun, and his decision, ult...

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REACHING INSIDE: CONTENTSIntroduction: Andre Dubus III Ann Patchett Sonny's Blues, James Baldwin The Long-Distance Runner, Grace PaleyMary Gordon I Stand Here Ironing, Tillie Olsen Pale Horse, Pale Rider, Katherine Anne PorterMadison Smartt Bell King of the Mountain, George GarrettSredni Vashtar, Saki Meg Wolitzer Clay, James Joyce Yours, Mary RobisonDani Shapiro Circular Ruins, Jorge Luis Borges Getting Closer, Steven MillhauserZZ Packer The ...

Tom Lowe's fall was catastrophic-a moment of fatigued inattention while shingling a roof leading to excruciating pain, opioid addiction, divorce, and estrangement from his son. Yet Tom still considers himself a worker, unlike his shiftless neighbors in subsidized housing. And he resents the hell out of the banker and adjustable-rate mortgage responsible for foreclosure on the home he built himself. After his car is impounded, Tom stoops lower ...

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Breece D'J Pancake cut short a promising career when he took his own life at the age twenty-six. Published posthumously, this is a collection of stories that depict the world of Pancake's native rural West Virginia.

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 (now included in his three-volume Collected Short Stories & Novellas) 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 o...

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Quando sono sola la notte - e mi piace esserlo - guardo fuori dalla finestra e capisco. Il nostro compito non è vivere grandi vite, il nostro compito è capire e portare avanti le vite che abbiamo. Vedo che sorridi ancora. E hai ancora gli occhi umidi. Asciugateli in fretta, prima che le mie amiche pensino che è successo qualcosa di brutto.

An ex- con who did time for murder, the estranged daughter he hasn't seen in forty years and the grandmother angry enough to kill him all come together in this riveting family drama. Like Dubus's already- classic memoir, Townie, and his novel House of Sand and Fog (a #1 The New York Times bestseller), Gone So Long is a profound exploration of the struggle between the selves we wish to be and the ones-shaped by chance and circumstance, as well ...

Pubblicato nel 1977, "Adulterio e altre scelte" è il secondo libro di racconti di Andre Dubus. Celebrato da scrittori come Stephen King, Kurt Vonnegut, Richard Yates e Joyce Carol Oates, Dubus si conferma un maestro della short story. La raccolta è divisa in tre parti. Nella prima Dubus esplora la giovinezza e i rapporti degli adolescenti con padri, famiglie, amici, con la consueta attenzione e tenerezza per i difetti di un genitore o per lo s...

Spirituality, sex, violence, guilt, and morality in stories that are filled with a generosity and tenderness that distinguishes the masterful short fiction writer, Andre Dubus. This third volume in the Collected Short Stories and Novellas by Andre Dubus includes the four novellas and two stories collected in The Last Worthless Evening, the novella, Voices from the Moon, plus previously uncollected stories-all with an introduction by Tobias Wol...

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