We Don’t Live Here Anymore
- Author Andre Dubus
- Narrator various
- Publisher Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date 26 February 2019
- Run Time 16 hours and 37 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Anthologies: general, Short stories.
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What to expect
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’ first story to appear in the New Yorker (1968)—which traces the aftermath of a tragic death during wartime.
Critics Review
“Andre Dubus, one of the twentieth century’s most gifted short story writers…like Raymond Carver, became a master of the form.”
“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.”
“This is a stunning vision of loss, domination, and redemption, and Andre Dubus is a wonderful writer.”
“This audiobook is a remarkable combination of extraordinary writing and superb narrating. Dubus is a master storyteller, and the narrators who perform this collection of short stories are some of the best in the business. The result is an amazing listening experience. Each narrator is up to the task of taking on Dubus’s stories, which cover love and loss, friendships and jealousy, tragedy and other moments in life large and small. All the narrators bring depth and understanding to their performances.”
“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.”
“The short story never rested in more honest hands than when Dubus wrote it.”
“A welcome gathering of work by a writer always worth reading.”
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