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Andre Dubus


Born
in Lake Charles, LA, The United States
August 11, 1936

Died
February 24, 1999

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Genre
Fiction, Short Stories


Award-winning author Andre Dubus II (1936–1999) has been hailed as one of the best American short story writers of the twentieth century. Dubus’s collections of short fiction include Separate Flights (1975), Adultery & Other Choices (1977), and Dancing After Hours (1996), which was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. Another collection, Finding a Girl in America, features the story “Killings,” which was adapted into the critically acclaimed film In the Bedroom (2001), starring Sissy Spacek, Tom Wilkinson, and Marisa Tomei. His son Andre Dubus III is also a writer. ...more

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Average rating: 4.1 · 12,492 ratings · 1,180 reviews · 93 distinct works • Similar authors
Selected Stories of Andre D...
4.27 avg rating — 3,056 ratings — published 1988 — 25 editions
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Dancing After Hours
4.12 avg rating — 1,733 ratings — published 1996 — 14 editions
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We Don't Live Here Anymore
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3.99 avg rating — 1,033 ratings — published 1984 — 8 editions
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In the Bedroom: Seven Stories
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4.17 avg rating — 980 ratings — published 1983 — 7 editions
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Meditations from a Movable ...
4.15 avg rating — 641 ratings — published 1998 — 19 editions
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Adultery and Other Choices
4.15 avg rating — 557 ratings — published 1977 — 21 editions
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Broken Vessels: Essays
4.29 avg rating — 448 ratings — published 1992 — 19 editions
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Finding a Girl in America
4.13 avg rating — 418 ratings — published 1980 — 20 editions
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The Times Are Never So Bad
4.17 avg rating — 357 ratings — published 1983 — 21 editions
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Separate Flights
4.23 avg rating — 325 ratings — published 1975 — 17 editions
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“I love short stories because I believe they are the way we live. They are what our friends tell us, in their pain and joy, their passion and rage, their yearning and their cry against injustice.”
― Andre Dubus
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“Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.”
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“It is not hard to live through a day, if you can live through a moment.”
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