Voices From the Moon

by Andre Dubus

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From the acclaimed author of 'A Father's Story': A boy looks to the Catholic Church for understanding as his family weathers two failed marriages. Voices from the Moon opens amidst the fallout of Stowe family patriarch Greg's divorce from his wife, Joan; and shortly after, that of their eldest son, Larry, from his wife, Brenda. On the verge of adolescence, young Richie Stowe grapples to make sense of these events and their consequences, and seeks solace in the church. As the family attempts show more to mend itself and move forward, its members are forced to reconcile their feelings of betrayal with their enduring love for one another.   Masterfully related from the alternating perspectives of its six main characters, Dubus's richly drawn novella recounts a family's failure to abide by those laws divined and decreed, and its path to redemption via understanding and forgiveness.   This ebook features an illustrated biography of Andre Dubus including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author's estate.   show less

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Questo di Dubus è un regalo che bisognerebbe farsi. Ci sono intere frasi che andrebbero messe come tagline della propria esistenza.
a little dated or something but really good. i liked killings best.
I was a huge Dubus fan in my 30s. He was a man, writing for men, without the macho bullshit.
Sono giorni che cerco di capire, o meglio, di trovare il modo di spiegare, perché Voci dalla luna mi sia piaciuto così poco.

Ho pensato che fosse perché il racconto è immerso in un contesto a me troppo lontano, non mi ci riconosco. Ma non è solo questo, altrimenti non mi sarebbere dovuto piacere neanche Carver, o, che so, I fratelli Karamazov.
I primi tre quarti del racconto mi hanno annoiato, addirittura irritato in certi punti.
Troppo cattomedioborghese americano, non so come dire.
Salvo forse solo l'ultima parte, quella di Joan.

Il punto è che non mi ha stupito, non mi ha raccontato nulla di nuovo, nulla che io non trovassi ovvio.
Sicuramente è una cosa mia, personale, magari la mia età, non lo so.

Mi ha raccontato di una società show more che non mi piace, prendendone proprio il succo estremo, e non mi ha rivelato nulla.
Non mi ha divertito, nel senso latino del termine, e non mi ha fornito nessuno spunto.
Che forse alla fin fine sono le cose che fanno sì che un libro mi piaccia.
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un libro da paura!!!
devo ammetterlo questo di gabriele è stato un gran bel consiglio di lettura.
bello intenso ......
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Andre Dubus was a short-story writer, essayist, and educator. Debus was a former Marine who taught college for 20 years while submitting his stories to small literary magazines. In the summer of 1986, he was hit by a car in Massachusetts, where he had stopped to help an accident victim. He spent the rest of his life confined to a wheelchair. Debus show more returned to writing after authors such as Kurt Vonnegut, John Irving, and John Updike held a benefit that helped defer his medical expenses. His 1997 collection of short stories, Dancing After Hours, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and won the Rea Award. He received the PEN/Malamud Award, the Jean Stein Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and fellowships from both the Guggenheim and MacArthur Foundations. Andre Dubus died on February 24, 1999. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Voices from the Moon
Original title
Voices from the Moon
Original publication date
1984
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Fiction and Literature, General Fiction
DDC/MDS
813.54Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican fiction in English1900-19991945-1999
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PS3554 .U265 .V6Language and LiteratureAmerican literatureAmerican literatureIndividual authors1961-
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