In this heartbreakingly
beautiful book of disillusioned intimacy and persistent yearning,
beloved and celebrated author Andre Dubus III explores the bottomless
needs and stubborn weaknesses of people seeking gratification in food
and sex, work and love.
In these linked novellas in which characters walk out the back door of
one story and into the next, love is "dirty"-tangled up with need,
power, boredom, ego, fear, and fantasy. On the Massachusetts coast north
of Boston, a controlling manager, Mark, discovers his wife's infidelity
after twenty-five years of marriage. An overweight young woman, Marla,
gains a romantic partner but loses her innocence. A philandering
bartender/aspiring poet, Robert, betrays his pregnant wife. And in the
stunning title novella, a teenage girl named Devon, fleeing a dirty
image of her posted online, seeks respect in the eyes of her widowed
great-uncle Francis and of an Iraq vet she's met surfing the Web.
Slivered
by happiness and discontent, aging and death, but also persistent hope
and forgiveness, these beautifully wrought narratives express
extraordinary tenderness toward human beings, our vulnerable hearts and
bodies, our fulfilling and unfulfilling lives alone and with others.
Andre Dubus III is the author of The Garden of Last Days, House of Sand
and Fog (a #1 New York Times bestseller, Oprah's Book Club pick, and
finalist for the National Book Award) and Townie, winner of an American
Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature. His writing has
received many honors, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National
Magazine Award, and two Pushcart Prizes. He lives with his family north
of Boston.
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ISBN: 9780393348910
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - June 10th, 2014
In this heartbreakingly beautiful book of disillusioned intimacy and persistent yearning, beloved and celebrated author Andre Dubus III explores the bottomless needs and stubborn weaknesses of people seeking gratification in food and sex, work and love.