Dancing After Hours
by Andre Dubus
List Price: $12.00
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 0679751149
Publisher: Vintage
In July 1986 Dubus stopped on I-93 to help a disabled motorist and was
struck by an oncoming car while managing to save the life of the woman
driver of the first car. His left leg was amputated above the knee and
the right leg was shattered; he spent three years in painful physical
therapy and finally resigned himself to life in a wheelchair. The trauma
of the accident and its aftermath caused a serious depression that stalled
his writing life for many years, and Dubus writes movingly of the experience
in his book of essays, Broken Vessels. Dancing After Hours,
which contains the new fiction work that Dubus has produced since the
story "The Colonel's Wife"--of which he says, "I broke the man's legs,"
marked the return of his ability to write fiction.
The recipient of many prestigious
awards for his writing, Andre Dubus is the father of six children and
lives in Haverhill, Massachusetts.
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