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The Times Are Never So Bad: A Novella and Eight Short Stories
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Product Description
The focus of this collection, which includes the often praised tale "A Father's Story," as well as the novella "the Pretty Girl," is on the twisting deformations of love, on domestic disturbances, and on marriages whose sanctity can no longer bind them.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #356908 in Books
- Published on: 1994-10-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 192 pages
Editorial Reviews
Review
For the lyricism and directness of his language, the richness and precision of his observation, he is among the best short-story writers in America. --Judith Levine, The Village Voice
Mr Dubus is a shrewd student of people who come to accept pain as a fair price for pleasure, and to view right and wrong as a matter of degree; without moralizing, he suggests that their self-inflicted punishments are often worse that what a just court, or a just God, would decree. --John Updike, The New Yorker
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
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