{"product_id":"book-ctqx","title":"The Cross Country Runner","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Cross Country Runner\u003c\/i\u003e brings together \u003ci\u003eVoices from the Moon\u003c\/i\u003e, his longest, most masterful novella, and \u003ci\u003eThe Last Worthless Evening\u003c\/i\u003e, Andre Dubus' fifth collection of short stories and novellas, 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 126-page 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 story-the Western-themed \"Sisters\"-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","brand":"Blackstone Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49293858111792,"sku":"BDctqx","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":49293858144560,"sku":"ZEctqx","price":44.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio MP3-CD","offer_id":49293858177328,"sku":"ZMctqx","price":44.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/ctqx-Square-cover.jpg?v=1775858279","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-ctqx","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}