Xamines what happens when ordinary men and women move across the tenuous barrier between the normal and the irrational.a story.about how people.are repeatedly trapped by circumstances and transformed.īill Sharp - The New York Times Book Review His father, Andre Dubus (1936-1999), was a well known writer of short stories and novellas, and his cousin is the mystery writer James Lee Burke. He currently is on the adjunct faculty at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, where he teaches general writing, fiction, and directed study courses. He lives in Newbury, Massachusetts, with his wife, dancer and choreographer Fontaine Dollas, and their three children. program in the theory of social change at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and then roamed the country working at a variety of jobs, including carpenter, construction worker, bounty hunter, bartender, counselor at a treatment center, and actor, before settling upon being a fiction writer. He started his college career at Bradford College (Massachusetts), where his father taught, before moving on to study sociology at the University of Texas. He was one of three finalists for the 1994 Prix de Rome given by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. It has also been included in "The One Hundred Most Distinguished Stories of 1993" and The Best American Short Stories of 1994. Dubus's work has been awarded a Pushcart Prize and the 1985 National Magazine Award for Fiction. His other books include Bluesman, a 1993 novel, and The Cage Keeper and Other Stories from 1989. Currently-lives in Newberry, MassachusettsĪndre Dubus III is an American writer best known as the author of the novel House of Sand and Fog, which was a National Book Award finalist in 1999 and was made into a movie in 2003.Awards-Pushcart Prize National Magazine Award-Fiction,.Combining unadorned realism with profound empathy, House of Sand and Fog marks the arrival of a major new voice in American fiction. Sheriff Lester Burdon, a married man who finds himself falling in love with Kathy, becomes obsessed with helping her fight for justice.ĭrawn by their competing desires to the same small house in the California hills and doomed by their tragic inability to understand one another, the three converge in an explosive collision course. Kathy Nicolo is a troubled young woman whose house is all she has left, and who refuses to let her hard-won stability slip away from her. In this riveting novel of almost unbearable suspense, three fragile yet determined people become dangerously entangled in a relentlessly escalating crisis.Ĭolonel Behrani, once a wealthy man in Iran, is now a struggling immigrant willing to bet everything he has to restore his family's dignity.
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