These twenty-three stories represent the best work of one of the finest
and most emotionally revealing writers in America. Andre Dubus treats
his characters--a bereaved father stalking his son's killer; a woman
crying alone by her television late at night; a devout teenager writing
in the coils of faith and sexuality; a father's story of limitless love
for his daughter--with respect and compassion. He turns fiction into an
act of witness. Books by Andre Dubus also in Vintage Contemporaries
paperback: Dancing After Hours.
"Like some of the most satisfying storytellers of the past (Dubus has
been compared to Chekhov), he is munificent, spinning out whole
lifetimes and recounting events from many characters' viewpoints. For
the lyricism and directness of his language, the richness and precision
of his observations and the generosity of his vision, he is among the
best."--Village Voice
"Dubus's characters resemble those of Raymond Carver...but the stories
stand alone in their idiosyncratic spiritual cast, occasionally
religious, more often expressive of devotion to the people he lives
among."--New York Times Book Review