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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 · 12,457 ratings · 1,178 reviews · 91 distinct works • Similar authors
Selected Stories of Andre D...
4.27 avg rating — 3,049 ratings — published 1988 — 25 editions
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Dancing After Hours
4.12 avg rating — 1,729 ratings — published 1996 — 14 editions
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We Don't Live Here Anymore
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3.99 avg rating — 1,031 ratings — published 1984 — 8 editions
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In the Bedroom: Seven Stories
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4.17 avg rating — 979 ratings — published 1983 — 7 editions
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Meditations from a Movable ...
4.16 avg rating — 638 ratings — published 1998 — 19 editions
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Adultery and Other Choices
4.15 avg rating — 556 ratings — published 1977 — 21 editions
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Broken Vessels: Essays
4.29 avg rating — 445 ratings — published 1992 — 5 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 — 356 ratings — published 1983 — 21 editions
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Separate Flights
4.23 avg rating — 323 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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