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    Dancing After Hours: Stories

    By Andre Dubus

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    A New York Times Notable Book of the Year

    From a genuine hero of the American short story comes a luminous collection that reveals the seams of hurt, courage, and tenderness that run through the bedrock of contemporary American life. In these fourteen stories, Dubus depicts ordinary men and women confronting injury and loneliness, the lack of love and the terror of actually having it. Out of his characters' struggles and small failures--and their unexpected moments of redemption--Dubus creates fiction that bears comparison to the short story's greatest creators--Chekhov, Raymond Carver, Flannery O'Connor.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRandom House Publishing Group
    Release dateJul 20, 2011
    ISBN9780307801913
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    Dancing After Hours: Stories
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    Andre Dubus

    Andre Dubus III is the author of two previous books, Bluesman and The Cage Keeper.

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    • 3/5
      These stories are of course well-made. Andre Dubus was a master of the short story. However, I have a hard time loving them, being satisfied by them, or even admiring them very much. They're made very simply, and don't tend to move, exalt or act deeply upon the reader. I have a hard time liking or sympathizing with his characters, even (or especially) those he returns to in a series of time-lapsed stories. The themes are fairly consistent: sex, love, betrayal, redemption. Betrayal, perhaps, most of all.Another note: Andre Dubus does not appear, from this volume, to have what Virginia Woolf, following Coleridge, would call the 'androgynous mind' of genius. There is often something off in his female characters, and there is a masculine skew to the world of his writing that grated insistently upon this female reader's nerves. This female reader loves many works by male writers, including some with almost no female characters. Something is amiss here.However, as I said, the stories are well-written, and at least one ('Blessings') was so delightfully unexpected that it probably accounts, entire, for one of the three stars above.
    • 2/5
      Life's too short for morose love stories. Tossed it aside after the fifth such story in the collection. He writes well, just not about anything I care to read.
    • 5/5
      I was a huge Dubus fan in my 30s. He was a man, writing for men, without the macho bullshit.