- Paperback: 160 pages
- Publisher: Vintage (Jan 29 2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1400030773
- ISBN-13: 978-1400030774
- Product Dimensions: 13.1 x 1.1 x 20.2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 168 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #149,292 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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“Dubus is the sort of writer who instructs the heart.” –The Atlantic Monthy
“It is a rare thing to admire an artist from a distance and upon meeting him not be disillusioned. After meeting Andre my admiration for his courage, talent, and humanity grew tenfold. . . . If you have never read him, get ready–you will never be the same again.” –Todd Field, from the Preface
“The lives of his characters become part of any close reader’s permanent bank of important memories.” –The Boston Globe
“Like Chekhov’s, Dubus’s best stories contain the arc of a whole life in the language of specific moments.” –The Village Voice
“It is a rare thing to admire an artist from a distance and upon meeting him not be disillusioned. After meeting Andre my admiration for his courage, talent, and humanity grew tenfold. . . . If you have never read him, get ready–you will never be the same again.” –Todd Field, from the Preface
“The lives of his characters become part of any close reader’s permanent bank of important memories.” –The Boston Globe
“Like Chekhov’s, Dubus’s best stories contain the arc of a whole life in the language of specific moments.” –The Village Voice
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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 emotional power.
A father in mourning contemplates the unthinkable as the only way to allay his grief. A boy must learn to care for his younger brother when their mother leaves the family. A young woman who has never lacked lovers despairs of ever finding love itself, and then makes an accidental discovery that brings her real joy. Culled from Dubus’s treasured collections Selected Stories and Dancing After Hours, these beautiful stories of people at pivotal moments in their lives are some of the most bewitching and profound in American fiction.
A father in mourning contemplates the unthinkable as the only way to allay his grief. A boy must learn to care for his younger brother when their mother leaves the family. A young woman who has never lacked lovers despairs of ever finding love itself, and then makes an accidental discovery that brings her real joy. Culled from Dubus’s treasured collections Selected Stories and Dancing After Hours, these beautiful stories of people at pivotal moments in their lives are some of the most bewitching and profound in American fiction.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Bewitching,
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This review is from: In the Bedroom: Seven Stories by Andre Dubus (Paperback)
Usually I shy away from short story collections, but a friend whose opinion I value highly recommended this book by the well-respected author, Andre Dubus. She was right. These 7 stories are masterful, displaying the quiet power within the decisions we make as we live through life's seemingly small moments. The award-winning movie titled In the Bedroom with Cissie Spacek was made from one of these stories.A bewitching and profound collection that should be on every serious reader's bookshelf.
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This is the world we live in,
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This review is from: In the Bedroom: Seven Stories by Andre Dubus (Paperback)
The thing about this book that people have told me they didn't like was that it was what they found in the newspaper. It is very similar to the world that we live in. The people seem really enough to pop off the page and enter your life. Talk for instance the story The Killings, also the the basis for the moving In The Bedroom. That is something that has happenend in this strange world that we live in. And it is what this amazing author brings to a table. When I first read Dubus I was unsure of his brillance but after reading In The Bedroom, I will not question him again. It is remarkable how well he wrote and knew the people he was writing about. This book at times almost reads like memoirs. And at other times not so much like anything you have ever read before. Take a chance with a different type of writing.
1.0 out of 5 stars
Monologues about trivialities,
By Gerburg Frick "narrator of Red Cage, true acc... (Lake Orion, MI United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)
This review is from: In the Bedroom: Seven Stories by Andre Dubus (Paperback)
These short stories could be of interest, but I cannot share the enthusiasm of other readers. To me they are lengthy monologues by a lonesome soul, whispering to itself about trivialities. I will avoid Andre Dubus. gerborg
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