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...
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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 ...
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Critical Essay by Michael Harris
It would not be inaccurate to call Andre Dubus an old-fashioned writer, for … he writes plotted stories about recognizable human beings in a language that, howe...
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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: ...
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Critical Essay by Joyce Carol Oates
[Separate Flights] consists of a novella and seven short stories, each of which is a considerable achievement. Dubus's attentiveness to his craft and his dee...
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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...
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Lyons is an American author and critic. In the following review, he describes the stories in Separate Flights as snapshots of late twentieth-century American life and asserts that Dubus's ficti...
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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.
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Sigal is an American novelist and educator. In the following review, he analyzes the strengths and weaknesses of The Last Worthless Evening, pointing out Dubus's sympathy for his characters.
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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...
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In the following review, Lesser observes that in The Last Worthless Evening, Dubus goes beyond the geographic and thematic boundaries that evolved in his previous fiction to explore wider social issue...
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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...
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In the following review of Selected Stories, Hoffman suggests that everyday objects, circumstances, and relationships transcend the ordinary in Dubus's fictional explorations of love and its co...
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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...
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Breslin is an American author, educator, and Roman Catholic clergyman. In the following essay, he examines the influence of Catholicism on Dubus's fictional exploration of human relationships.
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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...
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Tyler is an American novelist, short story writer, and critic. In the following review of Selected Stories, she characterizes the collection as "deeply rewarding" and Dubus as a writer w...
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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...
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In the following review of Selected Stories, Baveystock characterizes Dubus's fictional treatment of human conflict and crisis as psychological in origin and execution and suggests that the lon...
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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 ...
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In the following review, Hummel discusses Dubus's tendency to focus on life's daily battles instead of its more dramatic moments in Broken Vessels.
Since losing one leg, the use of his o...
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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...
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In the following review, the critic notes that in the stories in Dancing After Hours Dubus continues the themes of his earlier work but adds a new element as a result of his accident that makes ...
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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...
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Bausch is an American novelist and short story writer. In the following review, he applauds Dubus's return to short story writing and asserts that Dancing After Hours demonstrates the author&#x...
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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...
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Lehmann-Haupt is the New York Times's book critic. In the following review, he explores the various ways in which Dubus applies the element of fear in the stories of Dancing After Hours.
People...
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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 ...
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Pritchard is an American author and critic. In the following excerpt, he calls Dubus's portrayal of the everyday lives and secret agonies of ordinary people perceptive and realistic.
As for And...
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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...
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In the following critical assessment of Dubus's short stories published between 1977 to 1985, Yarbrough asserts that Dubus's fiction-writing talents are best showcased in his longer shor...
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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...
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In the following excerpt, Feeney comments on the breadth of biographical, psychological, and social circumstances which have influenced Dubus's fiction.
Blurbs and pictures on the dustjackets o...
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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...
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Andre Dubus
