SOURCE: "Eavesdropping on the Quotidian," in The Nation, New York, Vol. 224, No. 8, February 26, 1977, pp. 248-50.
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 fiction is characterized by finely crafted characters and believable circumstances.
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