Dancing After Hours is a book of short stories by Andre Dubus. First published in 1996 by Knopf, it was one of that year's New York Times Notable Books of the Year.

Contents

• "The Intruder" a confused adolescent boy's fantasies bring disaster.

• "A Love Song" Catherine discovers her husband is having an affair.

• "Falling In Love" a Vietnam veteran's love affair ends when his lover seeks an abortion.

• "Blessings" Rusty deals with the aftermath of a horrific shark attack during a family vacation.

• "Sunday Morning" a woman whose friend was murdered is convinced that she will never love and be loved.

• "All the Time in the World" LuAnn Arceneaux meets Ted Briggs and falls in love.

• "Woman on a Plane" a woman who hates flying travels on a plane to visit her dying brother.

• "The Colonel's Wife" a veteran depends on his wife for everything after breaking his legs in a freak accident.

• "The Lover" an aging man has a love affair with a younger woman and feels guilty for his failed marriages.

• "The Last Moon" a young woman convinces her sixteen-year-old lover to murder her husband.

• "The Timing of Sin" LuAnn Arceneaux tells her friend Marsha of an occasion when she almost committed adultery.

• "At Night" an old woman's husband dies at night laying beside her.

• "Out of the Snow" LuAnn Arceneaux beats two home invaders and scares them away.

• "Dancing After Hours" a quadriplegic's tale of skydiving illuminates an extraordinary evening among a group of people in a bar.

References

External links

• http://www.randomhouse.com/vintage/read/hours/

• http://www.medianugget.com/1997/11/dancing_after_h.html

• https://www.nytimes.com/1996/04/23/arts/an-award-for-dancing-after-hours.html

• http://litmed.med.nyu.edu/Annotation?action=view&annid=1082

• http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780679751144