{"product_id":"2940169868449","title":"The Cross Country Runner: Collected Short Stories and Novellas, Volume 3","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Cross Country Runner\u003c\/i\u003e brings together \u003ci\u003eThe Last Worthless Evening\u003c\/i\u003e, Andre Dubus' fifth collection of short stories and novellas, and \u003ci\u003eVoices from the Moon\u003c\/i\u003e, his longest, most masterful novella, along with previously uncollected stories and a new introduction by PEN\/Faulkner Award-winning author Tobias Wolff.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"'It's divorce that did it,' his father had said last night.\" So begins \u003ci\u003eVoices from the Moon,\u003c\/i\u003e the novella that shows Dubus at the height of his empathetic powers. Alternating between the viewpoints of Richie Stowe, a serious twelve-year-old who plans to become a priest, and the five other members of his family, the story takes place over the course of a single day.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe four novellas and two stories of \u003ci\u003eThe Last Worthless Evening\u003c\/i\u003e range further than those of any previous Dubus collection-racial tension in the navy, a detective-story homage, a Hispanic shortstop, the unlikely pairing of an eleven-year-old kid and a dangerous Vietnam vet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis third volume in the series also draws together for the first time many of Dubus' previously uncollected stories, including work from the mid-1960s and the late 1990s. The earliest story appearing here in book form for the first time is \"The Cross Country Runner,\" which was originally published in the long-defunct \u003ci\u003eMidwestern University Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e in 1966 when Dubus was thirty years old and only recently graduated from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. The final storyamp;mdash;the Western-themed \"Sisters\"amp;mdash;is the last piece of fiction Dubus was working on when he died suddenly in 1999 at just sixty-three years old.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIntroduction by Tobias Wolff.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blackstone Audio, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47104707363056,"sku":"2940169868449","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169868449_p0.jpg?v=1769901791","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169868449","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}