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Title	:	We Don't Live Here Anymore
Author	:	Andre Dubus
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 318 pages
Published	:	March 1994
Categories	:	Fiction. Short Stories. American. Americana. Literature

We Don't Live Here Anymore Hardcover | Pages: 318 pages

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In these three stories—two of which form the basis of the award-winning film We Don’t Live Here Anymore—literary master Andre Dubus traces the lives of two couples who married too young, and who are intricately entwined by love and friendship, jealousy and understanding.
Hank and Jack have been best friends since high school. Hank married Edith, the prettiest girl Jack had ever seen, and Jack married Terry, whom he thinks he may no longer love. But Hank and Edith’s adultery didn’t begin or end with Jack and Terry. Moving, perceptive, rendered in clear-eyed prose, We Don’t Live Here Anymore maps with preternatural insight the often separate lands of love and marriage.

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Original Title:	We Don't Live Here Anymore: Three Novellas
ISBN:	033028536X (ISBN13: 9780330285360)

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Very very bleak image of man and woman and what we do to eachother in terms of intimacy in relationships. There is a bit more to this than in the film, specifically one of the characters after the major tumultuous relationship rift. I think perhaps the most finely crafted aspect of it is how intellectuals fool themselves.

Amazing. Masterful. A complex and nuanced look into the lives of people on the brink, people at odds with their existence.

Andre Dubus III wrote 'In the Bedroom' which was made into an excellent movie 6 or 7 years ago. The House of Sand and Fog was written by his son, also named Andre Dubus. At first I thought they were one and the same. The elder Dubus is a great short story writer. This book was made into a movie, which didn't do justice to the novella of the same name on which it is based. I looked Dubus up on Wikipedia bc I couldn't figure out how to pronounce his name (duBUSE, rhymes with excuse) and wondered

This guy is a masterful storyteller. These three novellas intertwine and delve into the challenges facing men and women as they attempt a life of monogamy. Hank Allison is an author whose work at the local college makes it possible for him to engage in numerous affairs with young students culminating in a life of adultery, whereupon his own wife then engages in her own adulterous affairs (first with his best friend, and then with an ex-priest), but at what cost to herself? Dubus writing style

I listened to this book on audiobook. I think the readers detracted from the stories - one man was monotone! Otherwise, this book is about adultery, divorce, death, and depressing!!

This collection was excellent, and contained a really unbelievable number of references to housecleaning. The characters in the title story and "Adultery" are Carver people living in Cheever's neighborhood, putting Dubus at a literary intersection where he may write more grandly than Carver does, and write about women far more perceptively than Cheever does...but only in regards to their behavior while drinking, being cheated on, cooking bacon in the morning and operating a vacuum....It should

I have read his sons work but this was my first reading of his. The sons gifts came naturally. These were powerful, gut wrenching stories that, at times took my breath away with their raw beauty and emotion. Three of the novellas are an interwoven story of different times in the lives of two married couples. Dubus skillfully tells each partys thread in the story with ease and the reader is carried along like the ebbing and flowing tide. Highly recommend