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Format: Quality Paperback
Publisher: Vintage Books USA
Published: Mar 1997
Genre: Fiction - Short Stories (single Author)
Retail Price: $18.00
Pages: 256
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
From a genuine hero of the American short story comes a luminous collection that reveals the seams of hurt, courage, and tenderness that run through the bedrock of contemporary American life. In these fourteen stories, Dubus depicts ordinary men and women confronting injury and loneliness, the lack of love and the terror of actually having it. Out of his characters' struggles and small failures--and their unexpected moments of redemption--Dubus creates fiction t