SOURCE: A review of Dancing After Hours, in Library Journal, Vol. 121, No. 3, February 15, 1996, p. 177.

In the following review, Lynch observes that Dubus "expresses some of life's important truths" through the characters of Dancing After Hours.

These stories [in Dancing After Hours] are about women and men and the vast gulf that lies between them, which can, only sometimes, be bridged by love. Dubus, who has written eight other books of fiction and one collection of essays, lyrically examines modern relationships: marriages, affairs, and May/December romances. Three of the 14 stories in this collection follow the same couple, LuAnn Arceneaux and Ted Briggs, through their courtship, LuAnn's near-fall into sin, and, in "Out of the Snow," into the kitchen as LuAnn, now a 44-year-old housewife, heroically fends off two rapists who have made their way into her house. Most of the action in these stories is secondary to character...