โ Scribed by Andre Dubus
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
John Updike once said of his friend and fellow writer Andre Dubus:
[He] is a shrewd student of people who come to accept pain as a fair
price for pleasure, and to view right and wrong as a matter of degree.
Dubuss characters are depicted in all their imperfection, but with the
authors requisite tenderness and compassion. After all, they are human
just as we are human, and their fates not so unlike our own.
The
short stories and novellas compiled here represent the best work of one
of our most accomplished and acutely sensitive authors, and make up an
anthology unmatched in its collective portrayal of the human condition.
REVIEW
I return to Andre Dubus whenever I get hungry for a really good short
story. However, after recently experiencing a Matt Fowler's revenge in
the movie, "In the Bedroom," I revisited this 1996 collection of short
stories. That movie is based on one of the twenty-three, stunning
stories collected here, "Killings." Novelist Barbara Kingsolver has said
that "a good short story cannot simply be Lit Lite." Rather, "it is the
successful execution of large truths delivered in tight spaces."
Confronting issues including a bereaved father's revenge ("Killings"),
abortion ("Miranda over the Valley"), difficult relationships
("Adultery," "The Winter Father," "Voices from the Moon," "The Pretty
Girl," "The Pitcher," "Leslie in California"), religion ("If They Knew
Yvonne"), obesity ("The Fat Girl"), fatherhood ("A Father's Story"),
rape ("The Curse"), sexuality and death, Dubus triumphs in delivering
profound truths in these "tight spaces." You won't find
happily-ever-after endings here. Rather, these are emotionally
compelling stories that feel too real to be fiction. And they will leave
you coming back for more.
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