Dubus, Andre

Summary: "The 1986 highway accident that resulted in Dubus being largely confined to a wheelchair is an event that is by now familiar to readers of his award-winning short stories (Dancing After Hours, etc.) and previous collection of personal essays (Broken Vessels, 1991). In these 25 spare and luminous essays, most of which have previously appeared in magazines like the New Yorker, Harper's and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1999

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Summary: "'Journeys' captures the quintessential idea of the American dream. The individuals in this book are only a part of the brilliant mosaic of people who came to this country and made it what it is today. Read about the governor's grandfathers who dug ditches and cleaned sewers, laying the groundwork for a budding nation; how a future cabinet secretary crossed the ocean at age eleven on a cargo...

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Publisher / Publication Date: RosettaBooks 2018

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Summary: Compiles the best literary essays of the year 2019 which were originally published in American periodicals.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 BES