The Cage Keeper, and Other Stories, Andre Dubus III
The Cage Keeper, and Other Stories, Andre Dubus III
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The Cage Keeper, and Other Stories

Author: Andre Dubus III

Narrator: Andre Dubus III

Unabridged: 6 hr 8 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/15/2013

Categories: Fiction, Short Stories

Synopsis

Passion and betrayal, violent desperation, ambivalent love that hinges on hatred, and the quest for acceptance by those who stand on the edge of societythese are the hard-hitting themes of a stunningly crafted first collection of stories by the bestselling author of House of Sand and Fog. In the title story, a vigilant young man working in a halfway house finds himself unable to defend against the rage of one of the inmates. In White Trees, Hammer Moon, a man soon to leave home for prison finds himself as unprepared for a family camping trip in the mountains of New Hampshire as he has been for most things in his life. And in Forky, an ex-con is haunted by the punishment he receives just as he is being released into the world. With an incisive ability to inhabit the lives of his characters, Dubus travels deep into the heart of the elusive American dream.

About Andre Dubus III

Andre Dubus III is the author of Gone So Long, Dirty Love, The Garden of Last Days, House of Sand and Fog (a #1 New York Times bestseller, Oprah's Book Club pick, and finalist for the National Book Award), and Townie, winner of an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature. His writing has received many honors, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Magazine Award, and two Pushcart Prizes. He lives with his family north of Boston.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Andrew on July 25, 2016

In his memoir, Townie, Dubus talks of his upbringing in tough New England towns, where he was at first bullied by other boys but eventually trained himself to become a brawler of some repute. Here, in an early compendium of short stories, he is at home portraying a collection of down at heel charac......more

Goodreads review by Alex on February 20, 2011

The Cage Keeper and other Stories by Andre Dubus is a colllective reading of lives that fall between the cracks. A beautiful arrangement of strange, tragic, and liberating things, Andre Dubus uses his direct, and sometimes humorous language, to tell stories no one thinks to tell. Starting with The C......more

Goodreads review by Dylan on October 14, 2023

Reread: October 2023 Honestly, I've turned around on Cage Keeper over the years. The strong stories are strong enough to hold up the collection. Of the seven stories, four worked for me ("The Cage Keeper," "Duckling Girl," "Forky," and "White Trees, Hammer Moon.") two didn't, ("Mountains" and "Last D......more

Goodreads review by Connie on January 20, 2014

Andre Dubus III is an excellent author. His books are never very uplifting and deal with sad realities of life. This is a book of short stories and some I found to be disturbing.......more

Goodreads review by Knut on May 13, 2023

Stark yet vivid stories of people on the margins of society. A couple of these stories feel slightly out of place, but this is up there with the best of Dubus' fiction.......more

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