Andre Dubus Summary

Like Russell Banks and Raymond Carver, his contemporaries, Andre Dubus is often perceived as a "son of Ernest Hemingway," a judgment that would please neither Hemingway nor Dubus but one that serves a... Read more

Critical Essay by Walter Sullivan [Andre Dubus] is a southerner who almost never writes about the South. Most of the stories in Separate Flights take place in New England or the Middle West, and on a ... Read more

Critical Essay by Richard Todd I have a candidate [for "Most Underrated Writer of 1975"], a man who published a book this year to the merest flutter of applause, and deserved much more: ... Read more

Critical Essay by Frances Taliaferro Andre Dubus is a skillful and temperate writer. [Adultery and Other Stories] takes some getting used to. As when a harpsichordist opens his recital with sounds tha... Read more

In the following review of The Last Worthless Evening, Seidenbaum asserts that Dubus's stories and novellas are detailed reflections of everyday life rather than purely fictional creations. And... Read more

In the following review, Sullivan traces some of the common elements of Dubus's short fiction that appear in The Last Worthless Evening. In an age when short stories all too often mask human su... Read more

Kennedy is an American author and critic whose Andre Dubus: A Study of the Short Fiction was published in 1988. In the following essay, Kennedy traces the theme of progressing from solitude to love in... Read more

Eder is an American critic and journalist who won a Pulitzer Prize for criticism in 1987. In the following review of Selected Stories, he suggests that Dubus's fiction is sometimes marred by ex... Read more

In the following excerpt, Lesser discusses the depth of characterization in Dubus's Selected Stories. "Rose" is an exceptionally intense and difficult story, but it isn't e... Read more

Broyard was an American author and critic. In the following review, he suggests that the title story of Adultery, and Other Choices is most reflective of Dubus's talent for storytelling. Freshe... Read more

In the following review, Kriegel comments on the intensity of feeling and honesty found in Dubus's collection of personal essays, Broken Vessels. I have never met Andre Dubus, although I think ... Read more

In the following review, Toolan discusses Dubus's ability to turn poetry into revelation in Broken Vessels. Writers have their own set of moral commandments to add to the classic ten. "I... Read more

In the following review, Lynch observes that Dubus "expresses some of life's important truths" through the characters of Dancing After Hours. These stories [in Dancing After Hours... Read more

Shechner is a professor of English at the State University of New York in Buffalo. In the following review, he argues that Dancing After Hours "might just as well have been titled 'Tough... Read more

In the following excerpt, Perez offers a critical overview of Finding a Girl in America, suggesting that Dubus's stories provide a believable context for the dramatization of significant moral ... Read more

Kennedy is an American author, educator, and critic. In the following excerpt of an interview originally published in the February 1987 issue of Delta and based on conversations and correspondence bet... Read more

In the following review, Gray praises Dubus's skill as a short story writer and calls "Rose" a "classic American story." Forget the business about novellas and stori... Read more

In the following interview, which took place prior to his debilitating automobile accident, Dubus discusses literary and religious influences on his work. [Samway:] What authors or works of literature... Read more