"The Lieutenant is a masterpiece of military fiction and character driven storytelling. Each page is a work of total control and wound up energy, a predator ready to pounce. The beauty and stupidity of military service are on full display, as well the yearnings and failings of young men practicing leadership and preparing warriors for the battle. Dubus's nuanced interiority and patient pacing changed the art of American military storytelling. The Lieutenant has been a secret for far too long. Read it."
–Anthony Swofford, author of Jarhead
"Dubus is a master, our American Chekhov, and this re-issue of his only novel,
The Lieutenant, is a gift."
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Elliot Ackerman, author of
Red Dress in Black & White "Andre Dubus was a genius. His tense, wholly absorbing first (and only) novel has the dramatic pacing of a thriller, but with tremendous psychological and moral insight. At first a local study of power and of characters desperate to place their faith in corrupted and corrupting human institutions, the notes struck by the novel's end resonate out, leaving us questioning the structure of our own relationship to power, and what, precisely, it is we put our faith in."
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Phil Klay, author of
Missionaries "A fine, tense, wholly absorbing novel."
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Richard Yates, author of
Revolutionary Road
