Her marriage is over, her recovery from drug addiction is tenuous, and her income is almost nonexistent.
Through a careless bureaucratic error, Kathy Nicolo is evicted from her three-bedroom home in the California hills near San Francisco. His wife captures Kathy's dispassionate disbelief with a flat distance that is as effectively realistic as it is palpable. Dubus's performance as the hot-headed Behrani is frightening in its intensity. The reading by the author and his wife is sublime. Emotions take precedence over ethics, logic, love and the law as their paths collide in a surprising and tragic conclusion. Once a wealthy and powerful man in Iran and a colonel in the army under the Shah's rule, Behrani is now a struggling immigrant who hopes that he can sell the house for a large profit, so that he can once again provide his family with a lifestyle like the one they enjoyed in Iran. When her house in the California hills is mistakenly seized by the county for back taxes and sold at public auction, she finds herself living out of her car and on the brink of desperation. Kathy Nicolo is a recovering addict whose husband has left her and who is making her way in the straight world with her own cleaning business. ( Audio version.) Dubus has created a novel that is nearly perfectly suited to the audio format.
Xamines what happens when ordinary men and women move across the tenuous barrier between the normal and the irrational.a story.about how people.are repeatedly trapped by circumstances and transformed.īill Sharp - The New York Times Book Review His father, Andre Dubus (1936-1999), was a well known writer of short stories and novellas, and his cousin is the mystery writer James Lee Burke. He currently is on the adjunct faculty at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, where he teaches general writing, fiction, and directed study courses. He lives in Newbury, Massachusetts, with his wife, dancer and choreographer Fontaine Dollas, and their three children. program in the theory of social change at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and then roamed the country working at a variety of jobs, including carpenter, construction worker, bounty hunter, bartender, counselor at a treatment center, and actor, before settling upon being a fiction writer. He started his college career at Bradford College (Massachusetts), where his father taught, before moving on to study sociology at the University of Texas. He was one of three finalists for the 1994 Prix de Rome given by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. It has also been included in "The One Hundred Most Distinguished Stories of 1993" and The Best American Short Stories of 1994. Dubus's work has been awarded a Pushcart Prize and the 1985 National Magazine Award for Fiction. His other books include Bluesman, a 1993 novel, and The Cage Keeper and Other Stories from 1989.
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