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Andre Dubus

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born
August 11, 1936 in Lake Charles, LA, The United States

died
February 24, 1999

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Literature & Fiction


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Award-winning author Andre Dubus (1936–1999) has been hailed as one of the best American short story writers of the twentieth century. Dubus’s collections of short fiction include Separate Flights (1975), Adultery & Other Choices (1977), and Dancing After Hours (1996), which was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. Another collection, Finding a Girl in America, features the story “Killings,” which was adapted into the critically acclaimed film In the Bedroom (2001), starring Sissy Spacek, Tom Wilkinson, and Marisa Tomei.


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Average rating: 4.28 · 3,164 ratings · 296 reviews · 24 distinct works
Selected Stories
4.36 of 5 stars 4.36 avg rating — 880 ratings — published 1988 — 9 editions
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Dancing After Hours
4.23 of 5 stars 4.23 avg rating — 573 ratings — published 1996 — 6 editions
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In the Bedroom
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4.13 of 5 stars 4.13 avg rating — 423 ratings — published 2002 — 2 editions
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We Don't Live Here Anymore
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4.12 of 5 stars 4.12 avg rating — 376 ratings — 6 editions
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Meditations from a Movable ...
4.17 of 5 stars 4.17 avg rating — 240 ratings — published 1998 — 6 editions
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Broken Vessels
4.34 of 5 stars 4.34 avg rating — 171 ratings — published 2010 — 8 editions
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Adultery and Other Choices
4.31 of 5 stars 4.31 avg rating — 169 ratings — published 1977 — 6 editions
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Finding a Girl in America
4.24 of 5 stars 4.24 avg rating — 157 ratings — published 1980 — 7 editions
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Times are Never So Bad
4.25 of 5 stars 4.25 avg rating — 115 ratings — published 1983 — 7 editions
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Separate Flights
4.37 of 5 stars 4.37 avg rating — 86 ratings — published 1975 — 6 editions
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Quotes by Andre Dubus

“I love short stories because I believe they are the way we live. They are what our friends tell us, in their pain and joy, their passion and rage, their yearning and their cry against injustice.”
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“It is not hard to live through a day, if you can live through a moment.”
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“Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.”
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