Dancing After Hours

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Dancing After Hours
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Author	Andre Dubus
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre(s)	Short story collection
Publisher	Vintage Press
Publication date	1996
Media type	Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages	256 pp
ISBN	ISBN 978-0-679-75114-4
Preceded by	'Broken Vessels'
Followed by	'Meditations from a Moveable Chair'

Dancing After Hours is a book of short stories by Andre Dubus. First published in 1996 by Vintage, it was one of that year's New York Times Notable Books of the Year.^[1]

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"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 who's 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 in the night 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.^[2]