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| Original Title: | Meditations from a Movable Chair |
| ISBN: | 0679751157 (ISBN13: 9780679751151) |
| Edition Language: | English |
Andre Dubus
Paperback | Pages: 224 pages Rating: 4.21 | 547 Users | 53 Reviews
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| Title | : | Meditations from a Movable Chair |
| Author | : | Andre Dubus |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 224 pages |
| Published | : | April 6th 1999 by Vintage (first published 1998) |
| Categories | : | Writing. Essays. Nonfiction. Autobiography. Memoir. Biography. Language |
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The twenty-five luminous and intensely personal essays in this collection are, like Andre Dubus's celebrated short stories, a testament to the author's vulnerability, vision, and indestructible faith. Since losing one leg and the use of the other in a 1986 accident, Dubus has experienced despair, learned acceptance, and, finally, found joy in the sacramental magic of even the most quotidian tasks.Whether he is writing of the relationship with his father, the rape of his beloved sister, his Catholic faith, the suicide of a gay naval officer, his admiration for fellow writers like Hemingway and Mailer, or the simple act of making sandwiches for his daughters' lunchboxes, Dubus cuts straight to the heart of things. Here we have a master at the height of his powers, an artist whose work "is suffused with grace, bathed in a kind of spiritual glow" (The New York Times Book Review).
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Ratings: 4.21 From 547 Users | 53 ReviewsEvaluation About Books Meditations from a Movable Chair
4 1/2 stars. This is a work of great beauty and generosity of spirit, filled with fabulous writing as crystal clear as Hemingway or Carver's. My only complaint is that over the course of some 25 essays, the themes - disability, faith, family - become slightly repetitive; read quickly one after another this causes the individual pieces to lose their impact. One to dip into in small doses.I really enjoyed this collection of memoir-essays by Andre Dubus II. Titled "Meditations from a Moveable Chair," the essays were all written after the author started using a wheelchair, but not all of the essays are about his disability, or his life as a disabled person. Some of the essays focus on other people, or events unrelated to the car accident that damaged his body so greatly. Some essays focus on his childhood, and different moments from his adult life as an able-bodied man.I loved
It is the honesty of this book that is at times breathtaking. Dubus takes a microscope to his own life, his own mental states, his own failings and insecurities and shares the results of those inspections with the reader. Some people have a dividing line, a temporal Continental Divide of sorts, which demarcates the before from the after. That line for Dubus was 23 July 1986 when, acting as a Good Samaritan, he stopped along I 93 outside of Boston and was hit by another car. His legs were crushed
This book shows me a Christianity that I could see and feel and taste in ways I never have. I didn't even know that that was what I would find here, but I got to the end, and that's what I found. That's what I glimpsed. There are many books that I have read and loved, but very few that have forced me to look at the world differently. His descriptions make me want to reach out my hands and touch things, they make me want to move, want to sit and smell and see where I am. He never preached at me
I most always learn something about others when I read books, but not necessarily anything meaningful about myself. This is not the case with the work of Andre Dubus. Both his stories and essays, convey a type of truth, I believe, clearly recognizable because it reminds us of our own individual lives. The essays in this collection often focus on the struggle of trying to derive meaning from personal experience, in the case of Andre Dubus, tragic experience. Dubus was struck by a car in his
It was neat to read this book alongside Dancing After Hours because, in some cases, you get the germ of the short story in the memoir/essay. I've admired Dubus père for many years, consider "A Father's Story" one of the best I've EVER read, right up there with Carver's "A Small, Good Thing" and Kate Braverman's "Tall Tales from the Mekong Delta" (if you want to know my absolute favorites).Anyhow, it was good to get some insights into Dubus, perhaps more important since his son's memoir, Townie.
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