Introduction: Writers and Friends" / by Tobias Wolff --Voices from the moon ; The Last worthless evening -- Deaths at sea; After the game; Dressed like summer leaves; Land where my fathers died; Molly; Rose; Previously uncollected stories by Andre Dubus -- The Cross country runner; Love is the sky; The Blackberry patch; Madeline Sheppard; They now live in Texas; The CUrse; Riding North; Corporal Lewis; Sisters; Editor's note & acknowledgments ; Author's biography.
Summary:
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 oeuvre - 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.
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