Andre Dubus: Selected Stories (64 page)

Dubus in Iowa with his daughter Cadence in 1983. Cadence was born on June 11, 1982.

Dubus with his sister Kathryn in Haverhill, Massachusetts, in October of 1987, the first time Kathryn saw Andre after the car accident that claimed his left leg.

The signatures of six participants in a lecture series organized by Seattle Arts & Lectures from 1989 to 1990. Among the participants were John McPhee, Joyce Carol Oates, and Andre Dubus.

A typed manuscript of Dubus’s personal essay “Love in the Morning,” which centers on Dubus’s spiritual experience of morning Mass while confined to a wheelchair. It features a note and his signature, dated September 20, 1994. He later said of the essay that he “knew before starting it that it was coming like grace to me, and I could receive it or bungle it, but I could not hold it at bay.”

Andre Dubus III with his dad in the mid- to late-1990s. Andre III has gone on to enjoy a successful literary career, publishing five books, including the National Book Award finalist
The House of Sand and Fog
(1999) and
The Garden of Last Days
(2008), both of which were
New York Times
bestsellers.

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“The Curse” first appeared in
Playboy
(January 1988); “They Now Live in Texas” in
Indiana Review
, Vol. 10, Numbers 1 and 2 (Spring 1987).

copyright © 1975, 1977, 1980, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1988 by Andre Dubus

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ISBN: 978-1-4532-9950-0

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