Dancing After Hours Explained
Dancing After Hours |
Author: | Andre Dubus |
Country: | United States |
Language: | English |
Genre: | Short story collection |
Publisher: | Knopf |
Release Date: | 1996 |
Media Type: | Print (hardback & paperback) |
Pages: | 256 pp |
Isbn: | 978-0-679-75114-4 |
Oclc: | 36540598 |
Preceded By: | Broken Vessels |
Followed By: | Meditations from a Moveable Chair |
Dancing After Hours is a book of short stories by Andre Dubus. First published in 1996 by Knopf, it was one of that year's New York Times Notable Books of the Year.[1]
Contents
- "The Intruder" - a confused adolescent boy's fantasies bring disaster.
- "A Love Song" - Catherine discovers her husband is having an affair.
- "Falling In Love" - a Vietnam veteran's love affair ends when his lover seeks an abortion.
- "Blessings" - Rusty deals with the aftermath of a horrific shark attack during a family vacation.
- "Sunday Morning" - a woman whose friend was murdered is convinced that she will never love and be loved.
- "All the Time in the World" - LuAnn Arceneaux meets Ted Briggs and falls in love.
- "Woman on a Plane" - a woman who hates flying travels on a plane to visit her dying brother.
- "The Colonel's Wife" - a veteran depends on his wife for everything after breaking his legs in a freak accident.
- "The Lover" - an aging man has a love affair with a younger woman and feels guilty for his failed marriages.
- "The Last Moon" - a young woman convinces her sixteen-year-old lover to murder her husband.
- "The Timing of Sin" - LuAnn Arceneaux tells her friend Marsha of an occasion when she almost committed adultery.
- "At Night" - an old woman's husband dies in the night beside her.
- "Out of the Snow" - LuAnn Arceneaux beats two home invaders and scares them away.
- "Dancing After Hours" - a quadriplegic's tale of skydiving illuminates an extraordinary evening among a group of people in a bar.[2]
External links
- http://www.randomhouse.com/vintage/read/hours/
- http://www.medianugget.com/1997/11/dancing_after_h.html
- https://www.nytimes.com/1996/04/23/arts/an-award-for-dancing-after-hours.html
- http://litmed.med.nyu.edu/Annotation?action=view&annid=1082
- http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780679751144
Notes and References
- https://www.nytimes.com/1996/04/23/arts/an-award-for-dancing-after-hours.html "An Award for 'Dancing After Hours'"
- Web site: Dancing After Hours by Andre Dubus: 9780679751144 PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books . 2022-10-06 . PenguinRandomhouse.com . en-US.