Broken Vessels (22 page)
Authors: Andre Dubus
Dubus with his sister Kathryn in Haverhill, Massachusetts, in October of 1987, the first time Kathryn saw Andre after the car accident that claimed his left leg.
The signatures of six participants in a lecture series organized by Seattle Arts & Lectures from 1989 to 1990. Among the participants were John McPhee, Joyce Carol Oates, and Andre Dubus.
A typed manuscript of Dubus's personal essay “Love in the Morning,” which centers on Dubus's spiritual experience of morning Mass while confined to a wheelchair. It features a note and his signature, dated September 20, 1994. He later said of the essay that he “knew before starting it that it was coming like grace to me, and I could receive it or bungle it, but I could not hold it at bay.”
Andre Dubus III with his dad in the mid- to late-1990s. Andre III has gone on to enjoy a successful literary career, publishing five books, including the National Book Award finalist
The House of Sand and Fog
(1999) and
The Garden of Last Days
(2008), both of which were
New York Times
bestsellers.
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“Out Like a Lamb,” “Running,” “The End of a Season,” “Railroad Sketches,” “Of Robin Hood and Womanhood,” “The Judge and Other Snakes,” “On Charon's Wharf,” “Selling Stories,” and “Marketing” first appeared in
Boston Magazine
; “After Twenty Years” in
North American Review
; “Two Ghosts” in
Mid-American Review
; “A Salute to Mister Yates” and “Lights of the Long Night” in
Black Warrior Review
; “A Woman in April” in
Gentleman's Quarterly
; “Under the Lights” in
The Village Voice
; “Intensive Care” in
Indiana Review
; “Bastille Day” in
Yankee
; “Into the Silence” as the introduction to the anthology
Into the Silence
published by The Green Street Press; “Broken Vessels,” in a condensed version, in
Special Report
; and “Sketches at Home,” “Breathing,” and “Husbands” in
Epoch
.
copyright © 1991 by Andre Dubus
cover design by ORIM
ISBN: 978-1-4532-9966-1
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