{"product_id":"9781982590338","title":"The Winter Father: Collected Short Stories and Novellas, Volume 2","description":"While the title novella of Dubus’ \u003ci\u003eFinding a Girl in America\u003c\/i\u003e returns to the somewhat off-the-rails literary life of Hank Allison, the collection’s opening story strikes a much darker tone: “Killings”—the basis of the Academy Award–nominated film \u003ci\u003eIn the Bedroom\u003c\/i\u003e—is a swift tale of revenge that leaves readers wondering what they might do in the name of family love.\u003cp\u003eDubus’ prowess with narrative compression is on full display in the story “Waiting”: the hollow ache experienced by a woman widowed by the Korean War took Dubus fourteen months to write and was more than one hundred pages in early manuscript form but spans a mere seven pages in published form.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWriting in the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review,\u003c\/i\u003e Joyce Carol Oates called “The Pretty Girl”—the opening novella of \u003ci\u003eThe Times Are Never So Bad\u003c\/i\u003e—“the most compelling and suspenseful work of fiction [Dubus] has written.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRichard Russo’s introduction to this volume grapples with his complex feelings on reading Dubus’ work over many decades, but when it comes to the much-anthologized masterpiece “A Father’s Story,” Russo writes: “I won’t mince words. It’s one of the finest stories ever penned by an American.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blackstone Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46337978532081,"sku":"9781982590338","price":55.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0674\/5433\/7265\/files\/9781982590338_p0.jpg?v=1764989149","url":"https:\/\/shop.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781982590338","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble","version":"1.0","type":"link"}