{"product_id":"adultery-and-other-choices-by-andre-dubus-1994","title":"Adultery and Other Choices by Andre Dubus (1994)","description":"\u003cp\u003ePaperack in Very Good (VG) condition. Clean and straight. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"The title story alone will make it worth your while to go out and get the book.\"--The New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis second book of short stories by Andre Dubus (now included in his three-volume \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCollected Short Stories \u0026amp; Novellas\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e) established him as a master of the genre in the lineage of Hemingway and Chekhov, even as its gritty truths and spiritual attentiveness served to set his voice apart. The opening stories focus on the fragile nature of youth, exemplified in struggles with a father, a friend, an enemy. In part two, Dubus contends with the military, the police, and fate--and then leaves us with the most wrenching of all emotional challenges in the final novella, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAdultery\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e. Poignant as parables, alive as fiction, and compelling as pure narrative, these familiar stories never fail to entertain while, at the same time, leaving the reader breathless with the immediacy and depth of real life in the real America.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ex Libris Used Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43109016404195,"sku":"ODD561-13871","price":4.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/5675\/7951\/products\/33881.jpg?v=1657293867","url":"https:\/\/www.exlibrismichigan.com\/products\/adultery-and-other-choices-by-andre-dubus-1994","provider":"Ex Libris Used Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}