A review by lpmccracken
Dirty Love, by Andre Dubus III

4.0

This was a great book with interesting characters; I like reading about messed-up people, and these novellas are full of them. I teach grammar, so whenever I read, I can't help but pay attention to a writer's style and linguistic choices. Dubus has some great descriptions, as other reviewers have pointed out, but I think he relies far too much on the nominative absolute phrase (for example, "... his tie a muted blue, his head not bald but balding" ...). I get that everyone has a unique style, but I began to find his similar sentence structure distracting. I also get that I'm a complete grammar nerd (which can sometimes be a curse), and that this kind of attention to detail is probably my problem and not his. And I've certainly never published any novels...