My favourite book of personal essays is 'Meditations from a Movable Chair'; I can't read 'Liv Ullmann in Spring' without tears welling up in my eyes. ( )See if you can.) I love that Andre (if I may; his writing makes you feel like you knew him) was a man of deep Catholic faith; and how perfectly God used him as a vehicle of his loving grace. The concept of grace was very important to him❤
Where did the video of Andre Dubus reading from his work come from? I've never seen any video of Andre Dubus reading. I've only got an audio tape of "A Father's Story" that I love.
@@jonharrison9222 Dirty Realism is the fiction of a new generation of American authors. They write about the belly-side of contemporary life - a deserted husband, an unwanted mother, a car thief, a pickpocket, a drug addict - but they write about it with a disturbing detachment, at times verging on comedy. Understated, ironic, sometimes savage, but insistently compassionate, these stories constitute a new voice in fiction
I had never heard of the elder Dubus until Townie came out. From what I read, he was better known among the salons than anywhere else. My grat uncle was a professor of American literature, and in all his talks about great writers, I never heard him mention Dubus.
My favourite book of personal essays is 'Meditations from a Movable Chair'; I can't read 'Liv Ullmann in Spring' without tears welling up in my eyes. ( )See if you can.) I love that Andre (if I may; his writing makes you feel like you knew him) was a man of deep Catholic faith; and how perfectly God used him as a vehicle of his loving grace. The concept of grace was very important to him❤
One of the greatest modern American writers.
Where did the video of Andre Dubus reading from his work come from? I've never seen any video of Andre Dubus reading. I've only got an audio tape of "A Father's Story" that I love.
Such a great writer and his son is excellent too, one of the best dirty realism writers out there along with Ray Carver.
‘Dirty realism’ is a term that has no relevance except to advertising copy writers.
@@jonharrison9222 Dirty Realism is the fiction of a new generation of American authors. They write about the belly-side of contemporary life - a deserted husband, an unwanted mother, a car thief, a pickpocket, a drug addict - but they write about it with a disturbing detachment, at times verging on comedy. Understated, ironic, sometimes savage, but insistently compassionate, these stories constitute a new voice in fiction
I had never heard of the elder Dubus until Townie came out. From what I read, he was better known among the salons than anywhere else. My grat uncle was a professor of American literature, and in all his talks about great writers, I never heard him mention Dubus.
He should have.
And I live in a small village in the middle of England.