Books by Andre Dubus, III and Complete Book Reviews
Andre Dubus, III, Author . Norton $24.95 (537p) ISBN 978-0-393-04165-1
Dubus’s ambitious if uneven follow-up to House of Sand and Fog
begins shortly before 9/11 with stripper April taking her three-year-old daughter, Franny, to work after the babysitter flakes at the last minute. Though she leaves Franny with...
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Andre Dubus, III, Author W. W. Norton & Company $24.95 (365p) ISBN 978-0-393-04697-7
This powerfully written but bleak narrative is a mesmerizing tale of the American Dream gone terribly awry. Massoud Amir Behrani, a former colonel in the Iranian Air Force under the Shah, now lives in exile with his wife and teenage son near San...
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Andre Dubus, III, Author Plume Books $7.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-452-26371-0
``In his first collection, Dubus displays a firm grasp of the requirements of satisfying short fiction and a wide-ranging eye tightly focused on the telling detail,'' wrote PW. ``Often violent, given to drink, vulnerable to sexual desire, Dubus's...
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Andre Dubus, III, Author Dutton Books $17.95 (184p) ISBN 978-0-525-24691-6
In his first collection, Dubus displays a firm grasp of the requirements of satisfying short fiction and a wide-ranging eye tightly focused on the telling detail. Many of his stories center around prisons, their main characterswhether guards or...
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Andre Dubus, III, Author Faber & Faber $22.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-571-19812-2
In a gentle and winning first novel by the author of The Cage Keeper and Other Stories , 17-year-old Leo Suther faces some difficult growing up in the summer of 1967. Leo lives in a small Massachusetts town in the Connecticut River Valley with Jim,...
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Andre Dubus, III, Author, Andre Dubus III, Author, Andre Dubus, III, Performed by , read by the author and Fontaine Dollas Dubus. HarperAudio $39.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-694-52579-9
Dubus has created a novel that is nearly perfectly suited to the audio format. Kathy Nicolo is a recovering addict whose husband has left her and who is making her way in the straight world with her own cleaning business. When her house in the...
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Andre Dubus, III, Author, Dan John Miller, Read by , read by Dan John Miller. Brilliance Audio $38.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4233-6657-7
This fascinating novel is a powerful look at connection and love played out inside of a strip club in Florida. The central character is April, a stripper forced to bring her child to work because her babysitter has a panic attack. A male narrator...
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