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Title: Meditations from a Movable Chair by Andre Dubus ISBN: 0-679-75115-7 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 06 April, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.64 (14 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The piece on Sacraments is alone worth the price of the book
Comment: To enter the world of another mind is to discover we are all of one mind. Andre Dubus makes this possible by minding the business of living. Each grief, loss, and puzzlement he experiences is faced full on, letting us see how the prosaic details speak larger meanings when veiwed from the perspective of faith: life has meaning when I accept as a gift what I don't understand.
Rating: 5
Summary: Keep Praying
Comment: All over the world we should keep praying for the repose of Andre Dubus's soul, for he prayed so hard for the repose of ours. This book, and any of the others, is for the reader tired of glitz but unwilling to be dishonest. Do you believe in poetry after Auschwitz? How about the Eucharist after Columbine? If these are hard questions, read Andre Dubus. He had no easy answers, no quick fixes. Nor did he whine and celebrate postmodern angst while complacently tenured in an MFA program. God but we needed him!
Rating: 3
Summary: A Patchwork Quilt
Comment: A book of occasionally lovely short essays surrounded by a battery of incidental writing that should've been omitted. Dubus at his best, only evident here now and then, offers us writing that builds slowly, gathering a few seemingly unrelated details and weaving them into something uniquely powerful. It shouldn't be surprising then to know that the essays in this book that don't hold up well are all too abbreviated and short, more editorial than essay, ending just as they've begun. His religious thoughts, obviously sincere but still cloying, further interrupt the book's best moments.
Dubus however knows when he's on to something, and the essays here that stand out, such as that concerning the suicide of a gay military officer, show why Dubus earned his reputation as a craftsman. Much like his seminal story "A Father's Story," this essay tells us as much of the narrator as it does of the narrative's events. It's writing like this that shows the gulf between Dubus at his best, and Dubus simply on a friendly ramble, unable to mask his innate sadness -- both before and after the accident that left him in a wheelchair.
Perhaps that's what this book suggests most clearly, that Dubus never could quite wheel himself away from a depression that's as present as the author's almost daily upper-case Communion.
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Title: Broken Vessels by Andre Dubus ISBN: 0879239484 Publisher: David R Godine Pub. Date: August, 1992 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Dancing After Hours : Stories by Andre Dubus ISBN: 0679751149 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 04 March, 1997 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Selected Stories by Andre Dubus ISBN: 0679767304 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 04 December, 1995 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Gift of Peace by Cardinal Joseph Bernardin ISBN: 0385494343 Publisher: IMAGE Pub. Date: 10 November, 1998 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Girl Meets God: On the Path to a Spiritual Life by Lauren F. Winner ISBN: 1565123093 Publisher: Algonquin Books Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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