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The Winter Father: Collected Short Stories and Novellas, Volume 2 (Collected Short Stories and Novellas of Andre Dubus) (Collected Short Stories & Novellas)

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The Winter Father: Collected Short Stories and Novellas, Volume 2 (Collected Short Stories and Novellas of Andre Dubus) (Collected Short Stories & Novellas)

While the title novella of Dubus's Finding a Girl in America returns to the somewhat off-the-rails literary life of Hank Allison, the collection's opening story strikes a much darker tone: "Killings"-the basis of the Academy Award-nominated film In the Bedroom-is a swift tale of revenge that leaves readers wondering what they might do in the name of family love.

Dubus's prowess with narrative compression is on full display in the story "Waiting": the hollow ache experienced by a woman widowed by the Korean war took Dubus fourteen months to write and was more than one hundred pages in early manuscript formâ€¦but spans a mere seven pages in published form.

Writing in the New York Times Book Review, Joyce Carol Oates called "The Pretty Girl"-the opening novella of The Times Are Never So Bad-"the most compelling and suspenseful work of fiction [Dubus] has written."

Richard Russo's introduction to this volume grapples with his complex feelings on reading Dubus's work over many decades, but when it comes to the much-anthologized masterpiece "A Father's Story," Russo writes: "I won't mince words. It's one of the finest stories ever penned by an American."

Country	USA
Author	Andre Dubus
Binding	Paperback
EAN	9781567926170
ISBN	1567926177
Label	David R Godine
Manufacturer	David R Godine
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	400
PublicationDate	2018-06-20
Publisher	David R Godine
ReleaseDate	2018-06-28
Studio	David R Godine

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