Dirty Love (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780393064650)

In these linked novellas in which characters walk out the back door of one story and into the next, love is "dirty"--tangled up with need, power, boredom, ego, fear, and fantasy. On the Massachusetts coast north of Boston, a controlling manager, Mark, discovers his wife's infidelity after twenty-five years of marriage. An overweight young woman, Marla, gains a romantic partner but loses her innocence. A philandering bartender/aspiring poet, Robert, betrays his pregnant wife. And in the stunning title novella, a teenage girl named Devon, fleeing a dirty image of her posted online, seeks respect in the eyes of her widowed great-uncle Francis and of an Iraq vet she's met surfing the Web.

Slivered by happiness and discontent, aging and death, but also persistent hope and forgiveness, these beautifully wrought narratives express extraordinary tenderness toward human beings, our vulnerable hearts and bodies, our fulfilling and unfulfilling lives alone and with others.

Author: Andre Dubus
ISBN-10: 0393064654
ISBN-13: 9780393064650
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English
Published: 10/07/2013
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.29lbs
Size: 9.53h x 6.54w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 04/15/2013
Library Journal Prepub Alert 05/15/2013 pg. 52
Kirkus Bea Big Book Guide 05/15/2013 pg. 4
Publishers Weekly 07/01/2013
Booklist 08/01/2013 pg. 28
Kirkus Reviews Fall Preview 08/15/2013 pg. 7
Library Journal 09/01/2013 pg. 105
People Weekly 10/28/2013 pg. 55
Shelf Awareness 10/15/2013
New York Times Book Review 11/17/2013 pg. 13
Kirkus Best Fiction 11/15/2013 pg. 14
New York Times Book Review 11/24/2013 pg. 34
New Yorker (The) 12/02/2013 pg. 69
NY Times Notable Bks of Year 12/08/2013 pg. 26
Library Journal 05/15/2013