A Study Guide for Andre Dubus's "Killings"

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Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN 13 : 1410350428
Total Pages : 31 pages
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Download or read book A Study Guide for Andre Dubus's "Killings" written by Gale, Cengage Learning and published by Gale, Cengage Learning . This book was released on with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Study Guide for Andre Dubus's "Killings," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.

A Study Guide for Andre Dubus's ""Killings""

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ISBN 13 : 9781535826846
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Gone So Long: A Novel

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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393244113
Total Pages : 373 pages
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Book Synopsis Gone So Long: A Novel by : Andre Dubus III

Download or read book Gone So Long: A Novel written by Andre Dubus III and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Taut with tension.… [E]nding with a hint of hope."—Rob Merrill, Associated Press Cathartic, affirming, and steeped in the empathy and precise observations of character for which Dubus is celebrated, Gone So Long explores how the wounds of the past afflict the people we become. Gone So Long is a riveting family drama about an ex-con who did time for murder, the estranged daughter he hasn’t seen in forty years, and the grandmother angry enough to kill him. A profound exploration of the struggle between the selves we wish to be, and the ones—shaped by chance and circumstance, as well as character—that we can’t escape, it confirms Andre Dubus’s reputation as a novelist whose “compassion is unsentimental and unblinking, total and unwavering” (Paul Harding).

Selected Stories from Kipling

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Total Pages : 380 pages
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Understanding Andre Dubus

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Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 1611177413
Total Pages : 137 pages
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Book Synopsis Understanding Andre Dubus by : Olivia Carr Edenfield

Download or read book Understanding Andre Dubus written by Olivia Carr Edenfield and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2017-02-28 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An overview of a canon influenced by military service, faith, and a life-changing accident Andre Dubus (1936–1999), the author of short stories, novellas, essays, and two novels, is perhaps best known as the author of the story "Killings," which was adapted into the film In the Bedroom, a nominee for five Academy Awards in 2001. His work received many awards, including the PEN New England Award, the PEN Malamud Award, the Rea Award for the Short Story, and the Jean Stein Award. In Understanding Andre Dubus, Olivia Carr Edenfield focuses on the major influences that span Dubus's canon—his Catholic upbringing, Marine Corps service, and turn to fiction at the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, as well as the influence that a life-threatening accident had on his work. Edenfield traces how Dubus's experiences serve as a backdrop for the major themes that run through his work: faith, family, and infidelity. His marriages, the complex relationships with his children, and his difficult recovery from a car accident exerted a powerful influence on his work. Dubus also took up the complicated themes of love and marriage, fatherhood and faith, and despair and spiritual healing; his subjects and style were influenced significantly by Ernest Hemingway. After Dubus's novel Broken Vessels was named a runner-up for the Pulitzer Prize in 1991, he returned to writing short stories, the genre for which he is still renowned. He focused on a character much like himself who had to learn to navigate the world while afflicted with physical and spiritual disability. In 1996 he published his critically acclaimed short story cycle Dancing after Hours, an appropriate ending to a career that celebrated the healing power of the human heart.

Townie

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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393340678
Total Pages : 401 pages
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Download or read book Townie written by Andre Dubus and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2012-02-06 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I've never read a better or more serious meditation on violence, its sources, consequences, and, especially, its terrifying pleasures, than "Townie." It's a brutal and, yes, thrilling memoir that sheds real light on the creative process of two of our best writers, Andre Dubus III and his famous, much revered father. You'll never read the work of either man in quite the same way afterward. You may not view the world in quite the same way either.--Richard Russo, author of "Empire Falls."

Dancing After Hours

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Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307801918
Total Pages : 219 pages
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Download or read book Dancing After Hours written by Andre Dubus and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-07-20 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 that bears comparison to the short story's greatest creators--Chekhov, Raymond Carver, Flannery O'Connor.

House of Sand and Fog

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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393046974
Total Pages : 507 pages
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Download or read book House of Sand and Fog written by Andre Dubus and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1999 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oprah Book Club selection for November 2000.

The Garden of Last Days

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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393041651
Total Pages : 556 pages
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Download or read book The Garden of Last Days written by Andre Dubus and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2008 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explosive elements coverge one early September night in a Florida men's club revealing the seamy underside of American life at the moment before the world changed.

Dirty Love

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ISBN 13 : 0393064654
Total Pages : 304 pages
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Download or read book Dirty Love written by Andre Dubus and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2013-10-07 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of short stories examining the lives of suburbanites seeking solace and gratification in food, sex, work, and love.

What's Left of Us

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Publisher : Kensington Publishing Corp.
ISBN 13 : 0806532440
Total Pages : 306 pages
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Download or read book What's Left of Us written by Richard Farrell and published by Kensington Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Blunt and honest. . .A stunning piece of work." --T.J. English "Deeply moving. . .What's Left of Us is a rush of blood to the head and heart, the kind only true art can deliver." --Andre Dubus "An amazing story not just of survival, but redemption." --Mary McGarry Morris Richie Farrell grew up in a working-class Irish neighborhood in Massachusetts. To overcome a birth defect, his father pushed him to become a star athlete, grooming him for Notre Dame. Sometimes, he would use a belt as a learning tool. Once, he used an electric carving knife. . . The headline read Crippled at Birth: Farrell Now Grid Star. A month later, I tore up my knee and fell in love with pain medication. By time he was thirty, Richie was a heroin addict, stealing from friends, shooting up during visits to his children, living in abandoned mill buildings, running from the shameful secrets of his family. Hopeless and in pain, he attempted suicide. When that failed, he was ordered to detox. He looked at me. "Be honest," he said, "or you'll be on the street in 15 minutes. Jail, death, or honesty. You choose." In this harrowing, astounding memoir, Richard Farrell chronicles a life of desperation, violence, lies--and the pure oblivion of heroin. A gritty, hauntingly written tale of a descent into hell and a slow, uncertain climb out of it, What's Left Of Us is a true story of redemption: of how low a man can get, and how hard he must fight to escape a shattered life. . . "[Farrell] carries you on this rollercoaster ride of ugliness and beauty. Don't miss it." --Phyllis Karas Richard Farrell is an author, filmmaker, teacher, journalist, and adjunct professor of English at the University of Massachusetts in Lowell. His documentary, High on Crack Street, was aired on HBO and received Columbia University's duPont Award. He is the co-author of A Criminal and an Irishman: The Inside Story of the Mob-IRA Connection. He is the screenwriter for the upcoming film The Fighter, and makes his home in Milford, New Hampshire.

A Study Guide for Gina Berriault's "Stone Boy"

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ISBN 13 : 1410359298
Total Pages : 26 pages
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Collected Short Stories and Novellas

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ISBN 13 : 9781567926170
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Collected Short Stories and Novellas written by Andre Dubus and published by Collected Short Stories and Novellas. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andre Dubus's short stories and novellas illuminate the lives of women and men cast against harrowing and heartrending circumstances. The gripping themes of Dubus's uvre-faith and family, violence and loyalty, guilt and morality-have earned him comparisons to master storytellers such as Raymond Carver, Flannery O'Connor, and Anton Chekhov. With a deft touch, Dubus tackles nearly unspeakable subjects. Yet, without succumbing to sentimentality he imbues his characters with a quiet dignity in stories infused with an unerring belief that even the most complicated moments of our lives contain the possibility of grace. Dubus is a shrewd student of people who come to accept pain as a fair price for pleasure, and to view right and wrong as a matter of degree... Dubus ... continues to introduce us to ourselves, to see into the private worlds of everyday people as they live, dream and act, taking soundings that are deep and true. Book jacket.

The Revelations

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Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 164700098X
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (47 download)

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The Last Worthless Evening

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Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453299580
Total Pages : 189 pages
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Download or read book The Last Worthless Evening written by Andre Dubus and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2010-11-23 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tour de force collection from an American master of short fiction—“its emotional heartbeat is so insistently truthful” (The New York Times). In his fifth collection of short fiction, Andre Dubus exhibits his remarkable storytelling range. In “Deaths at Sea,” two naval officers, one black and one white, must come to terms with a history and an institution steeped in racism. “After the Game” tells the story of a Hispanic shortstop on a major-league baseball team who suddenly and without explanation loses his mind. And in “Rose,” a mother finally stands up to her husband’s abuse of their children. The four novellas and two short stories that comprise The Last Worthless Evening traverse those facets of American life that are at the same time cruel and commonplace, and with spare, immediate prose, render them universal. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Andre Dubus including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s estate.

Broken Vessels

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Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN 13 : 9780879239480
Total Pages : 226 pages
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Download or read book Broken Vessels written by Andre Dubus and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 1992 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andre Dubus is celebrated for his ability to depict the subtlest of human emotions in his characters, and when he turns to nonfiction, the resulting insights are no less illuminative. Especially moving are his descriptions of his children, his wrenching account of the 1986 automobile accident that cost him his leg, and of the ensuing struggle for his spiritual and physical survival. Broken Vessels is a book that, in its scope and sympathy, its grace and courage, never fails to startle with the sudden impact of quiet truths, passionately felt and powerfully expressed.

Bullets into Bells

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Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807025593
Total Pages : 210 pages
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Download or read book Bullets into Bells written by Brian Clements and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2017-12-05 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful call to end American gun violence from celebrated poets and those most impacted Focused intensively on the crisis of gun violence in America, this volume brings together poems by dozens of our best-known poets, including Billy Collins, Patricia Smith, Natalie Diaz, Ocean Vuong, Danez Smith, Brenda Hillman, Natasha Threthewey, Robert Hass, Naomi Shihab Nye, Juan Felipe Herrera, Mark Doty, Rita Dove, and Yusef Komunyakaa. Each poem is followed by a response from a gun violence prevention activist, political figure, survivor, or concerned individual, including Nobel Peace Prize laureate Jody Williams; Senator Christopher Murphy; Moms Demand Action founder Shannon Watts; survivors of the Columbine, Sandy Hook, Charleston Emmanuel AME, and Virginia Tech shootings; and Samaria Rice, mother of Tamir, and Lucy McBath, mother of Jordan Davis. The result is a stunning collection of poems and prose that speaks directly to the heart and a persuasive and moving testament to the urgent need for gun control.