Dirty Love

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Intimate tales of yearning, love's gritty complexities.

"Dirty Love" might resonate with you if you're seeking stories that dive into the murky waters of human relationships and emotions. Dubus tackles the complicated intertwining of desire, betrayal, and the quest for happiness with a raw, honest pen. His characters navigate through their flaws and longings in a way that mirrors the messy beauty of real life, making this book a deeply touching and reflective read for anyone who appreciates nuanced storytelling and the bittersweet dance of human connection.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Dirty Love

Regular price RM32.87 MYR
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ISBN: 9780393348910
Authors: Andre Dubus III
Date of Publication: 2014-06-10
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Contemporary, Literary Fiction
Related Topics: Literature
Goodreads rating: 3.53
(rated by 3819 readers)

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In this heartbreakingly beautiful book of disillusioned intimacy and persistent yearning, beloved and celebrated author Andre Dubus III explores the bottomless needs and stubborn weaknesses of people seeking gratification in food and sex, work and love. 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.
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Intimate tales of yearning, love's gritty complexities.

"Dirty Love" might resonate with you if you're seeking stories that dive into the murky waters of human relationships and emotions. Dubus tackles the complicated intertwining of desire, betrayal, and the quest for happiness with a raw, honest pen. His characters navigate through their flaws and longings in a way that mirrors the messy beauty of real life, making this book a deeply touching and reflective read for anyone who appreciates nuanced storytelling and the bittersweet dance of human connection.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.