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Over three decades, celebrated fiction writer Andre Dubus (1936-1999) published seven collections of short stories, two collections of essays, two collections of previously published stories, two novels, and a novella. While this is an impressive publishing record for any writer, for Dubus, who suffered a near-fatal accident mid-career, it is near miraculous. Just after midnight on July 23, 1986, after stopping to assist two stranded motorists, Dubus was struck by a car. His right leg was crushed and his left leg had to be amputated above the knee. After months of hospital stays and surgeries, he would suffer chronic pain for the rest of his life. However, when he gave his first interview after the accident, his deepest fear was that he would never write again.

This collection of interviews traces his career beginning in 1967 with the publication of his novel The Lieutenant, to his final interview given right before his death February 24, 1999. In between are conversations that focus on his shift to essay writing during his long recovery period as well as those that celebrate his return to fiction with the publication of "The Colonel's Wife," in 1993. Dubus would share as well stories surrounding his Louisiana childhood, his three marriages, the writers who influenced him, and his deep Catholic faith.

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  1. Cover
  2. p. 1
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  1. Title Page, Copyright
  2. pp. i-vi
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. vii-viii
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  1. Introduction
  2. pp. ix-xviii
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  1. Chronology
  2. pp. xix-xxiv
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  1. Former Resident Is Writer and Teacher in Massachusetts
  2. pp. 1-5
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  1. Conversation with Andre Dubus
  2. pp. 6-11
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  1. A Conversation with Andre Dubus
  2. pp. 12-31
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  1. Andre Dubus Interview with Kay Bonetti
  2. pp. 32-58
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  1. A Redneck Intellectual at Home in New England
  2. pp. 59-62
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  1. Interview with Andre Dubus
  2. pp. 63-68
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  1. The Outrageous Andre Dubus
  2. pp. 69-75
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  1. Our Dinners with Andre
  2. pp. 76-88
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  1. Interview with Andre Dubus
  2. pp. 89-102
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  1. Accident Robbed Author of Desire to Write
  2. pp. 103-106
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  1. An Interview with Andre Dubus
  2. pp. 107-116
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  1. Short-Story Writer’s Words Flow on the Page—and Off
  2. pp. 117-119
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  1. Andre Dubus’s Knuckler Keeps Him in the Game
  2. pp. 120-129
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  1. Profile in Courage
  2. pp. 130-132
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  1. Andre Dubus
  2. pp. 133-143
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  1. “Into the Melody”: A Conversation with Andre Dubus
  2. pp. 144-191
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  1. A Conversation with Andre Dubus
  2. pp. 192-207
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  1. An Interview with Andre Dubus
  2. pp. 208-217
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  1. Interview with Andre Dubus
  2. pp. 218-229
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  1. Interview
  2. pp. 230-246
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  1. Interview with Andre Dubus
  2. pp. 247-248
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  1. Appendix: List of Additional Interviews
  2. pp. 249-250
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 251-257
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