We Don't Live Here Anymore (Collected Short Stories and Novellas) - Softcover

Dubus, Andre

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1567926169 ISBN 13: 9781567926163

Publisher: David R. Godine, Publisher, 2018

Synopsis

In the early 1970s, literary journals that contained Andre Dubus short stories were passed around amongst admiring readers. When his debut collection Separate Flights arrived in 1975, it was immediately celebrated. "Dubus is the sort of writer who instructs the heart, and he ought to be discovered by any number of readers," wrote The Atlantic Monthly. The collection won the Boston Globe's Laurence L. & Thomas Winship/PEN New England Award.

The collection includes the novella "We Don't Live Here Anymore," which served as the basis for the 2004 film of the same title (nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival); the novella also introduces Dubus's writer-protagonist Hank Allison, a character who continues to appear throughout his work.

Two years later, the title story of Dubus's sophomore collection Adultery and Other Choices continued the exploits of Hank Allison. "The title story alone will make it worth your while to go out and get the book," wrote the New York Times Book Review.

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 (1968)-which traces the aftermath of a tragic death during wartime.

About this title

About the Author:

Andre Dubus was the award-winning author of seven collections of stories and novellas, one novel, and two collections of essays. After the publication of his debut story collection in 1975 ( Separate Flights, David R. Godine, Publisher), Dubus devoted his writing life to the story form. Considered one of the greatest American short story writers of the twentieth century, his work is notable for its spare prose and illuminative insights into the human heart. Dubus is often compared to Anton Chekhov. Andre Dubus (1936 1999) is considered among the most talented American short story writers of his generation. Born and raised in Louisiana, he graduated from the revered University of Iowa Writers Workshop, and spent his adult life living and writing 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 critically acclaimed films In the Bedroom and We Don't Live Here Anymore were adapted from his stories.

Review:

The short story never rested in more honest hands that when Dubus wrote it. --Finnegan Schick, The New Criterion

WE DON'T LIVE HERE ANYMORE and THE WINTER FATHER...bring together the fiction of Andre Dubus, one of the 20th century's most gifted short story writers, who, like Raymond Carver, became a master of the form... --The New York Times

The solidly yet intricately constructed short stories and novellas of Dubus vibrate with provocative intensity of place, predicament, thought and feeling. Each is an intimate, unnerving dream of the everyday conflicts between dream and reality, spirit and desire. --Booklist, Starred Review

About this edition

• Publisher: David R. Godine, Publisher
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1567926169
• ISBN 13: 9781567926163
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 460