Dancing After Hours (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)

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Of the nine books of fiction Andre Dubus has published in the last twenty years, seven of them are collections of short fiction; thus he is usually included as part of the so-called renaissance of the short story that has taken place since the 1970’s. However, Dubus’ fiction is neither like the self-reflexive experiments of Donald Barthelme, nor the minimalist realism of Raymond Carver. Rather, Dubus’ short fictions are more like the kind of stories that Bernard Malamud would have written had he not been Jewish, Flannery O’Connor would have written had she not been southern, or...

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