Leonard Kriegel (review date 11 August 1991)


Leonard Kriegel (review date 11 August 1991)

SOURCE: "Reborn in a Wheelchair," in The New York Times Book Review, August 11, 1991, p. 9.

[In the following review, Kriegel comments on the intensity of feeling and honesty found in Dubus's collection of personal essays, Broken Vessels.]

I have never met Andre Dubus, although I think he is as good a writer of short fiction as anyone I have read over the last ten years. But after reading his first book of autobiographical essays, Broken Vessels, I think I know him. In fact, I think I know him...

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