Commonweal, April 23rd, 1999
A writer's writer
In a review of Andre Dubus's Selected Stories, fellow novelist Anne Tyler commented about the risky ending of perhaps Dubus's best short work, "A Father's Story": "He has a way of stepping forth, however thin the ice." A risky image itself since three years before the book appeared, Dubus had been struck down in a late-night hit-and-run accident on a lonely stretch of I-93 north of Boston. Dubus had stopped to aid two motorists in distress and suffered the loss of one leg and the use of the other.
But the ironies go deeper. The plot of "A Father's Story" turns on a simila...
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