Dancing After Hours

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

Contents

 * "The Intruder" &mdash; a confused adolescent boy's fantasies bring disaster.
 * "A Love Song" &mdash; Catherine discovers her husband is having an affair.
 * "Falling In Love" &mdash; a Vietnam veteran's love affair ends when his lover seeks an abortion.
 * "Blessings" &mdash; Rusty deals with the aftermath of a horrific shark attack during a family vacation.
 * "Sunday Morning" &mdash; a woman whose friend was murdered is convinced that she will never love and be loved.
 * "All the Time in the World" &mdash; LuAnn Arceneaux meets Ted Briggs and falls in love.
 * "Woman on a Plane" &mdash; a woman who hates flying travels on a plane to visit her dying brother.
 * "The Colonel's Wife" &mdash; a veteran depends on his wife for everything after breaking his legs in a freak accident.
 * "The Lover" &mdash; an aging man has a love affair with a younger woman and feels guilty for his failed marriages.
 * "The Last Moon" &mdash; a young woman convinces her sixteen-year-old lover to murder her husband.
 * "The Timing of Sin" &mdash; LuAnn Arceneaux tells her friend Marsha of an occasion when she almost committed adultery.
 * "At Night" &mdash; an old woman's husband dies in the night beside her.
 * "Out of the Snow" &mdash; LuAnn Arceneaux beats two home invaders and scares them away.
 * "Dancing After Hours" &mdash; a quadriplegic's tale of skydiving illuminates an extraordinary evening among a group of people in a bar.