"The Pretty Girl . . . may be the most compelling and suspenseful
work of fiction [Dubus] has written."--Joyce Carol Oates, The New
York Times Book Review
Stories of men and women attempting to live together, to tell the truth
as they see it (or don't see it), and to survive the crises, and
sometimes the violence, of domestic life. Now included in Andre Dubus's
Collected Short Stories & Novellas) this original edition includes A
Father's Story, as well as the novella The Pretty Girl. Upon its
publication in 1991, Tobias Wolff wrote, "'It is a world of secrets, '
says the narrator of A Father's Story. Andre Dubus's fine new
collection is made of those secrets, observed with an art that is
luminous with honesty and generosity. Dubus is interested in essential
things--in the shadowy powers that circle our lives and the slender
resources of faith and love with which we try to keep them at bay."