We Don't Live Here Anymore: Collected Short Stories and Novellas, Volume 1

Review ''The solidly yet intricately constructed short stories and novellas of Dubus vibrate with provocative intensity of place, predicament, thought and feeling. Each is an intimate, unnerving dream of the everyday conflicts between dream and reality, spirit and desire.'' -- Booklist (starred review)''The short story never rested in more honest hands than when Dubus wrote it.'' -- New Criterion''A welcome gathering of work by a writer always worth reading.'' -- Kirkus Reviews''Andre Dubus, one of the twentieth century's most gifted short story writers...like Raymond Carver, became a master of the form.'' --New York Times''Dubus is good -- so good in fact that if [this is] your introduction to his work, you're apt to wonder where he's been hiding.'' -- Washington Post''This is a stunning vision of loss, domination, and redemption, and Andre Dubus is a wonderful writer.'' --Boston Globe Product Description [Read by various readers including: Robert Fass, Joe Barrett, Bronson Pinchot, Traber Burns, Cassandra Campbell, Hillary Huber, and Andre Dubus III]In the early 1970s, literary journals that contained Andre Dubus' short stories were passed around among admiring readers. When his debut collection, Separate Flights, arrived in 1975, it was immediately celebrated and won the Boston Globe's Laurence L. & Thomas Winship / PEN New England Award.The collection includes the novella We Don't Live Here Anymore, which served as the basis for the 2004 film of the same title (nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival); the novella also introduces Dubus' writer-protagonist Hank Allison, a character who continues to appear throughout his work.Two years later, the title story of Dubus' sophomore collection Adultery and Other Choices continued the exploits of Hank Allison. ''The title story alone will make it worth your while to go out and get the book,'' wrote the New York Times Book Review.While the collection's opening stories focus on the fragile nature of youth, later stories shift to darker struggles of adulthood, such as in ''Andromache'' -- Dubus's first story to appear in The New Yorker (1968) -- which traces the aftermath of a tragic death during wartime. About the Author Andre Dubus (1936-1999) is considered one of the greatest American short story writers of the twentieth century. His collections of short fiction, which include Adultery & Other Choices and The Times Are Never So Bad are notable for their spare prose and illuminative, albeit subtle, insights into the human heart. He is often compared to Anton Chekhov and revered as a ''writer's writer.'' Dubus was born in Lake Charles, Louisiana to a Cajun Irish Catholic family. He graduated from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop and later moved to Massachusetts, where he taught creative writing at Bradford College.