Beschreibung

A classic collection that contains some of the author's "most compelling and suspenseful" work-including 'The Pretty Girl' and 'A Father's Story' (Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Times Book Review).

In his fourth collection, Andre Dubus revisits his central themes of infidelity and fallibility, exploring the minds of his characters with unflinching honesty and unfailing compassion. Set in the New England landscape, and populated by the complex, damaged individuals he has come to claim as his own, these stories are ultimately characterized by their extraordinary ordinariness. They are a reverent testament to the passion and sadness of humble lives.

Deeply moving and insightful, The Times Are Never So Bad is yet another masterful work by a writer whose Chekhovian sensibilities inform-yet never distract from-his own fully realized perspective.

This ebook features an illustrated biography of Andre Dubus including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author's estate.

Autorentext

Award-winning author Andre Dubus (1936-1999) has been hailed as one of the best American short story writers of the twentieth century. Dubus's collections of short fiction include Separate Flights (1975), Adultery & Other Choices (1977), and Dancing After Hours (1996), which was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. Another collection, Finding a Girl in America, features the story "Killings," which was adapted into the critically acclaimed film In the Bedroom (2001), starring Sissy Spacek, Tom Wilkinson, and Marisa Tomei.

Zusammenfassung
Dubus's fourth collection is a compassionate depiction of lives that are never as neat as his characters would have them beIn his fourth collection, Andre Dubus revisits the themes of infidelity and fallibility that he has been known to explore with such unflinching honesty and unfailing respect. Set in the New England landscape and populated by the men and women he has come to claim as his own, these stories are ultimately characterized by their extraordinary ordinariness. They are a reverent testament to the quiet sadness of humble lives.Deeply moving and insightful, The Times Are Never So Bad is yet another masterful work by a writer whose Chekhovian sensibilities informyet never distract fromhis own fully realized perspective. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Andre Dubus including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author's estate.

Inhalt

• Contents
• Introduction
• The Pretty Girl
• Bless Me, Father
• Goodbye
• Leslie in California
• The New Boy
• The Captain
• Sorrowful Mysteries
• Anna
• A Father's Story
• A Biography of Andre Dubus

Produktinformationen

Titel:	The Times Are Never So Bad
Untertitel:	A Novella and Eight Short Stories
Autor:	Andre Dubus
EAN:	9781453299425
ISBN:	978-1-4532-9942-5
Digitaler Kopierschutz:	Wasserzeichen
Format:	E-Book (epub)
Herausgeber:	Open Road Integrated Media
Genre:	Erzählende Literatur
Anzahl Seiten:	180
Veröffentlichung:	23.11.2010
Jahr:	2010
Untertitel:	Englisch
Dateigrösse:	2.3 MB