Synopses & Reviews
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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"His power is ominous and genuine." Vanity Fair
Review
"What [Dubus] gives us is an unastonished account of his characters' puzzlements and desires, and those small moments in which momentous movements of the heart happen." The New York Times Book Review
Synopsis
In these three stories—two of which form the basis of the award-winning film
We Dont 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 Ediths adultery didnt begin or end with Jack and Terry. Moving, perceptive, rendered in clear-eyed prose, We Dont Live Here Anymore maps with preternatural insight the often separate lands of love and marriage.