Andre Dubus III

“House of Sand and Fog is one of the best American novels I’ve ever read. It’s a stunning book. In terms of style and experiment and narrative technique it ranks with the best writing among both the naturalist and realist schools of literature…Dubus has taken his place with Nelson Algren and James Cain. No one who reads this novel will ever forget it. I have never felt so strongly about the talent of a young writer in my life.”

-James Lee Burke

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“Andre Dubus III has illuminated one of the great issues of the end of this century—the collision of cultures—and he’s done it with a novel of extraordinary narrative power and stylistic beauty. House of Sand and Fog is a compelling and important book.”

-Robert Olen Butler

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“I loved this novel…I just did not want to put it down. It manages to tell both sides of the same story convincingly and honestly, and I know it had to be hard to write. But the good writing shines on every page, and it delights and saddens at the same time. This really is a fine piece of work.”

-Larry Brown

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“House of Sand and Fog is a novel of terrible truths. Everyone here wants what we want—love, justice, a home—and all their good intentions collide, violently, inevitably, in a story of remarkable power and veracity and tenderness. Andre Dubus III has a keen and generous eye, and the great gift of bestowing dignity on even the most confused of his people. I cared for them all, and mourned their fates.”

-Tobias Wolff

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“A mixture of classical tragedy perfectly imbued with film noir…House of Sand and Fog is the work of a writer who is the real thing.”

-The Baltimore Sun

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“Elegant and powerful…An unusual and volatile literary thriller.”

-The Washington Post Book World

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“It is rare these days to encounter a novel that follows the rules of Greek tragedy…Dubus is a taker of risks, and here he ups the ante by making his protagonist an immigrant trying to establish a foothold in America…A craftsman of character and dialogue, Dubus has dare to push his limits.”

-San Francisco Chronicle

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“This is the achingly real tale of what happens when the American Dream goes awry…A poignant drama that is engrossing…A book full of longing, a vivid and exquisitely realized snapshot of America’s underside.”

-Seattle Weekly

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“The most rending kind of war is not between two hatreds, but between two hopes…Dubus sets out the growing confrontation with chilly ingenuity and a remarkably observant compassion…[House of Sand and Fog is a] fine and prophetic novel.”

-Los Angeles Times

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“Dubus proves himself both an exquisitely careful craftsman and a painstaking recorder of society…This is fiction that does not make a mockery of relevance. It speaks of our time and place with craft and sympathy, confronting us with an America that remains, after all, a land of ever-new collisions.”

-Boston Magazine

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“A smart, raw study in the clash of cultures…An utterly believable, riveting journey…[Dubus] has hit a nerve…At the center of House of Sand and Fog, as perhaps at the center of much of the world’s trouble, is the simple desire for a home…Dubus has written a story that one cannot help but care about.”

-The San Diego Union-Tribune

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“Memorable…[an] affecting, subtle portrait of two hostile but equally fragile camps.”

-The New Yorker

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“Exceptional storytelling, true to life…searing and insightful…You can’t help but be impressed.”

-The Philadelphia Inquirer

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“This is a story, told in highly visual, descriptive language, about how people you might choose to be your neighbors are repeatedly trapped by circumstances and transformed by events until finally they can—and do—destroy one another.”

-The New York Times Book Review

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“Unputdownable…a page-turner that’s a mind-opener—a thriller with moral complexity, subtle commentary on global politics, and pretty good sex.”

-Mirabella