A New York Times Notable Book of the Year From a genuine hero of the American short story comes a luminous collection that reveals the seams of hurt, courage, and tenderness that run through the bedrock of contemporary American life. ...

"Taut with tension.… [E]nding with a hint of hope."―Rob Merrill, Associated PressCathartic, affirming, and steeped in the empathy and precise observations of character for which Dubus is celebrated, Gone So Long explores...

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 ...

These twenty-three stories represent the best work of one of the finest and most emotionally revealing writers in America. Andre Dubus treats his characters--a bereaved father stalking his son's killer; a woman crying alone by her tel...

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 emotiona...

In 1967, Leo Suther, a white eighteen-year-old boy interested in blues music, finds himself caught up in the Vietnam War, in a coming-of-age novel about a young man struggling with personal conflict, ambition, desire, and duty. Reprin...

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 sto...