Voices from the Moon (First Edition)

Dubus, Andre

ISBN 10: 0879235322 / ISBN 13: 9780879235321

Published by David R. Godine, Publisher, Inc., Boston, 1984

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Hardcover. First edition. First printing. A fine book in a fine dust jacket. A tight clean copy. Jacket unclipped with original publisher's price of $12.95 intact. Comes with archival-quality dust jacket protector. Shipped in well padded box.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Voices from the Moon (First Edition)
• Publisher: David R. Godine, Publisher, Inc., Boston
• Publication Date: 1984
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0879235322
• ISBN 13: 9780879235321
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

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Synopsis

Voices from the Moon (now included in Andre Dubus's Collected Short Stories & Novellas) opens amidst the fallout of Stowe family patriarch Greg’s divorce from his wife, Joan; and shortly after, that of their eldest son, Larry, from his wife, Brenda. On the verge of adolescence, young Richie Stowe grapples to make sense of these events and their consequences, and seeks solace in the church. As the family attempts to mend itself and move forward, its members are forced to reconcile their feelings of betrayal with their enduring love for one another. Masterfully related from the alternating perspectives of its six main characters, Dubus’s richly drawn novella recounts a family’s failure to abide by those laws divined and decreed, and its path to redemption via understanding and forgiveness.

About the Author

Andre Dubus (1936–1999) is among the great American 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.