A review by tomhill
Selected Stories by Andre Dubus

5.0

"A Father's Story" alone is a masterpiece. Dubus often writes of everyday people's tragedy, but he does so with such warmth and compassion that his character's lives never seem ugly or completely hopeless. There's beauty in the way he depicts human frailness and sadness, both through his prose and his characterizations. For me, the only writing equal to Dubus's fiction is his non-fiction (read 'Broken Vessels'!) One might also flippantly describe Dubus's stories as about sad Catholics who smoke a lot, but as I feel a great affinity with that description, I'm okay with it.