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Dancing After Hours

By Andre Dubus

By Andre Dubus

By Andre Dubus

By Andre Dubus

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Part of Vintage Contemporaries

Part of Vintage Contemporaries

Paperback $15.00

Mar 04, 1997 | ISBN 9780679751144

Ebook $10.99

Jul 20, 2011 | ISBN 9780307801913

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    About Dancing After Hours

    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. In these fourteen stories, Dubus depicts ordinary men and women confronting injury and loneliness, the lack of love and the terror of actually having it. Out of his characters’ struggles and small failures–and their unexpected moments of redemption–Dubus creates fiction that bears comparison to the short story’s greatest creators–Chekhov, Raymond Carver, Flannery O’Connor.



    "A master of the short story…It’s good to have Andre Dubus back. More than ever, he is an object of hope."–Philadelphia Inquirer


    "Dubus’s detailed creation of three-dimensional characters is propelled by his ability to turn a quiet but perfect phrase…[This] kind of writing raises gooseflesh of admiration."–San Francisco Chronicle

    About Dancing After Hours

    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. In these fourteen stories, Dubus depicts ordinary men and women confronting injury and loneliness, the lack of love and the terror of actually having it. Out of his characters’ struggles and small failures–and their unexpected moments of redemption–Dubus creates fiction that bears comparison to the short story’s greatest creators–Chekhov, Raymond Carver, Flannery O’Connor.

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    About Andre Dubus

    Andre Dubus (1936–1999) is considered one of the greatest American short story writers of the twentieth century. His collections of short fiction, which include Adultery & Other Choices (1977), The Times Are Never So Bad (1983), and The Last Worthless Evening (1986), are notable for their spare… More about Andre Dubus

    About Andre Dubus

    Andre Dubus (1936–1999) is considered one of the greatest American short story writers of the twentieth century. His collections of short fiction, which include Adultery & Other Choices (1977), The Times Are Never So Bad (1983), and The Last Worthless Evening (1986), are notable for their spare… More about Andre Dubus

    Product Details

    Category: Literary Fiction | Short Stories

    Paperback | $15.00
    Published by Vintage
    Mar 04, 1997 | 256 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780679751144

    Category: Literary Fiction | Short Stories

    Ebook | $10.99
    Published by Vintage
    Jul 20, 2011 | 256 Pages | ISBN 9780307801913
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    Praise

    "Like some of the most satisfying storytellers of the past (Dubus has been compared to Chekhov), he is munificent, spinning out whole lifetimes and recounting events from many characters’ viewpoints. For the lyricism and directness of his language, the richness and precision of his observations and the generosity of his vision, he is among the best."
    —Village Voice

    "Dubus’s characters resemble those of Raymond Carver…but the stories stand alone in their idiosyncratic spiritual cast, occasionally religious, more often expressive of devotion to the people he lives among."
    —The New York Times Book Review

    "A master of the short story…It’s good to have Andre Dubus back. More than ever, he is an object of hope."
    —The Philadelphia Inquirer

    "Dubus’s detailed creation of three-dimensional characters is propelled by his ability to turn a quiet but perfect phrase…[This] kind of writing raises gooseflesh of admiration."
    —San Francisco Chronicle

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