Adultery & Other Choices (28 page)

Andre Dubus III with his dad in the mid- to late-1990s. Andre III has gone on to enjoy a successful literary career, publishing five books, including the National Book Award finalist
The House of Sand and Fog
(1999) and
The Garden of Last Days
(2008), both of which were
New York Times
bestsellers.

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“An Afternoon with the Old Man” and “Andromache” were first published in
The New Yorker
; “Contrition” in
The North American Review
; “Cadence,” “The Bully,” and “Adultery” in
The Sewanee Review
(© 1974, 1975, 1977 by the University of the South); “Graduation” in
The New Dawn Magazine
; “The Shooting” in
The Carleton Miscellany
(© 1974 Carleton College); and “Corporal of Artillery” in
Ploughshares
.

copyright © 1977 by Andre Dubus

cover design by Alvaro Villanueva

ISBN: 978-1-4532-9970-8

This edition published in 2010 by Open Road Integrated Media
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