A Father’s Story (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Andre Dubus
- First Published: 1983
- Type of Plot: Domestic realism
- Time of Work: The early 1980's
- Setting: Northeastern Massachusetts
- Principal Characters: Luke Ripley, Jennifer, Paul LeBoeuf
- Genres: Short fiction, Domestic realism
- Subjects: Friendship, 1980’s, New England, Spiritual life or spirituality, Adultery, Accidents, Divorce, Catholics or Catholic Church, Loneliness, Conspiracies or conspirators, Horses, Priests, Drunk driving or drivers, Celibacy
- Locales: Massachusetts
The Story
Luke Ripley, who narrates his own experience, is fifty-four, a divorced father of four who lives in northeastern Massachusetts, near the New Hampshire line and the Atlantic Ocean. Apparently neither rich nor poor, he runs a stable, boarding and renting out thirty horses and giving riding lessons. Luke still broods over the Wednesday that his wife, Gloria, left with the kids and a trailer, some ten or so years earlier.
Largely a solitary person, Luke is a friend of Father Paul LeBoeuf, the balding, sixty-four-year-old pastor of a nearby Catholic church. Father...
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