"Dubus is the sort of writer who instructs the heart, and he ought to be discovered by any number of readers."―The Atlantic Monthly
Andre Dubus was one of the finest short-story writers in the United States, and this, his first book (now included as part of the three-volume Collected Short Stories & Novellas) was published in 1975 to great acclaim, winning the Boston Globe‘s first annual Laurence L. Winship Award as the outstanding book of New England.