Full name: The Times Are Never So Bad: A Novella and Eight Short Stories

Author: Andre Dubus Year: 1983 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Short Stories, Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780879236410 0879236418

"The Pretty Girl . . . may be the most compelling and suspenseful work of fiction [Dubus] has written."--Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Times Book Review Stories of men and women attempting to live together, to tell the truth as they see it (or don't see it), and to survive the crises, and sometimes the violence, of domestic life. Now included in Andre Dubus's Collected Short Stories & Novellas ) this original edition includes A Father's Story, as well as the novella The Pretty Girl. Upon its publication in 1991, Tobias Wolff wrote, "'It is a world of secrets, ' says the narrator of A Father's Story. Andre Dubus's fine new collection is made of those secrets, observed with an art that is luminous with honesty and generosity. Dubus is interested in essential things--in the shadowy powers that circle our lives and the slender resources of faith and love with which we try to keep them at bay." Similar books: Dancing After Hours by Andre Dubus In the Bedroom by Andre Dubus The Diamond as Big as the Ritz by F. Scott Fitzgerald The Early Stories by John Updike The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze by William Saroyan Pigeon Feathers and Other Stories by John Updike Trust Me by John Updike Revenge of the Lawn by Richard Brautigan The old forest by Peter Taylor Collected Stories of Wallace Stegner by Wallace Stegner Venus Drive by Sam Lipsyte Transactions in a Foreign Currency by Deborah Eisenberg Drunk with Love by Ellen Gilchrist We Others by Steven Millhauser The Complete Stories of Truman Capote by Truman Capote Success Stories by Russell Banks The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis by Lydia Davis The Toughest Indian in the World by Sherman Alexie Birds of America by Lorrie Moore