Peacework, July 1st, 2000
Andre Dubus. Broken Vessels: Essays, Boston: David R. Godine, 1991.
In the years before his death by heart attack last year, Andre Dubus (pronounced dub-YOOSE"), was considered by many readers and writers the best short story writer working in America. As Tobias Wolff notes in the introduction to the present volume, Dubus' fiction is written "in different forms, from varying points of view, in a language that magically strikes just the right note for the story being told. He is . . . a master."
But even among admirers of his fiction, Dubus is perhaps best known for the night in July of 1986 ...
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