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Andre Dubus Iii's Reading List

The author, most recently, of the novel “Gone So Long” is moved by compassion in literature: “The sense that the writer is not poking fun at his or her characters, but instead is genuinely curious about their lives.”

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By the Book: Andre Dubus Iii (2018)

NYT By the Book column (2018-10-04).

Source: www.nytimes.com

The Largesse of the Sea Maiden
Denis Johnson · Buy on Amazon
"Denis Johnson's final book, The Largesse of the Sea Maiden."
Cover of Lolita
Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov · 1955 · Buy on Amazon
"It cut me in two, and I'm still trying to sew myself back together."
Cover of The Sun Also Rises
The Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway · Buy on Amazon
"My go-to classic would have to be Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, his first novel and I think his best, a masterpiece of understatement and genuinely earned irony and deep vulnerability."
Cover of A People's History of the United States
A People's History of the United States
Howard Zinn · Buy on Amazon
"The one book of American history I've bought and given to friends for years is Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States."
Ironweed
William Kennedy · Buy on Amazon
Cover of All the Light We Cannot See
All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr · 2014 · Buy on Amazon
The Name of the World
Denis Johnson · Buy on Amazon

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