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Original Title:	Broken Vessels
ISBN:	0879239484 (ISBN13: 9780879239480)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Pulitzer Prize Nominee for General Nonfiction (1992)

Broken Vessels: Essays Paperback | Pages: 195 pages

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Title	:	Broken Vessels: Essays
Author	:	Andre Dubus
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 195 pages
Published	:	November 1st 1992 by David R. Godine Publisher (first published August 1st 1992)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Writing. Essays. Autobiography. Memoir

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Andre Dubus is celebrated for his ability to depict the subtlest of human emotions in his characters, and when he turns to nonfiction, the resulting insights are no less illuminative. Especially moving are his descriptions of his children, his wrenching account of the 1986 automobile accident that cost him his leg, and of the ensuing struggle for his spiritual and physical survival. Broken Vessels is a book that, in its scope and sympathy, its grace and courage, never fails to startle with the sudden impact of quiet truths, passionately felt and powerfully expressed.

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Andre Dubus is my favorite writer. His fiction - and now I know - his nonfiction are sublime.

After the accident that killed the use of his legs, after the years of story writing, a collection of essays spanning his career, just a beautiful book, particularly the essay: On Charon's Warf...

8.30.08I discover Andre Dubus's writer in a book call 'Writers and Company'. (side notes to the programmers at Goodreads: It would be nice to link a book on here.) Dubus's essays are not the typical essay. To me they are more like personal stories and it's not fictionalized which is even better. It's like he's talking to me and yet the descriptions are like a story sometimes and they are parables.He's had a hard life but his spirit is amazing. There are tragedies that he lived through and wrote

"Dubus writes with searing candor, grace and tenderness in these autobiographical essays."-Publishers Weekly"Despite his occasional sermonettes, however, Dubus remains one of America's best and most prolific short-story writers, and Broken Vessels contains as much good work as anything ever written.Dubus, like the characters in his best stories, doesn't seek to prevail in the material world, but only in the abstract regions of his own heart. It's this sense of spiritual integrity which gives

To say I loved this book is so far from adequate. I have been moved by everything dubus has written and this was no exception. It broke me open, as all good nooks, essays, stories should. It will be a while before I can reread this, but that to me is also a sign of a powerful book.

After the accident that killed the use of his legs, after the years of story writing, a collection of essays spanning his career, just a beautiful book, particularly the essay: On Charon's Warf...

The last essay, the "title essay", is absolutely amazing and had me near tears at one point. I admire his brutal honesty and self-reflection and lack of self-pity.