Dancing After Hours

First edition
Author	Andre Dubus
Language	English
Genre	Short story collection
Publisher	Knopf
Publication date	1996
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (hardback & paperback)
Pages	256 pp
ISBN	978-0-679-75114-4
OCLC	36540598
Preceded by	Broken Vessels
Followed by	Meditations from a Moveable Chair

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.^[1]

Contents

• "The Intruder" — a confused adolescent boy's fantasies bring disaster.
• "A Love Song" — Catherine discovers her husband is having an affair.
• "Falling In Love" — a Vietnam veteran's love affair ends when his lover seeks an abortion.
• "Blessings" — Rusty deals with the aftermath of a horrific shark attack during a family vacation.
• "Sunday Morning" — a woman whose friend was murdered is convinced that she will never love and be loved.
• "All the Time in the World" — LuAnn Arceneaux meets Ted Briggs and falls in love.
• "Woman on a Plane" — a woman who hates flying travels on a plane to visit her dying brother.
• "The Colonel's Wife" — a veteran depends on his wife for everything after breaking his legs in a freak accident.
• "The Lover" — an aging man has a love affair with a younger woman and feels guilty for his failed marriages.
• "The Last Moon" — a young woman convinces her sixteen-year-old lover to murder her husband.
• "The Timing of Sin" — LuAnn Arceneaux tells her friend Marsha of an occasion when she almost committed adultery.
• "At Night" — an old woman's husband dies in the night beside her.
• "Out of the Snow" — LuAnn Arceneaux beats two home invaders and scares them away.
• "Dancing After Hours" — a quadriplegic's tale of skydiving illuminates an extraordinary evening among a group of people in a bar.^[2]