The acclaimed novelist reflects on his violent past and a lifestyle that threatened to destroy him--until he was saved by writing. |
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Andre Dubus III Townie - A Memoir After their parents divorced in the 1970's, Andre Dubus III and his three siblings grew up with their exhausted working mother in a depressed Massachusetts mill town saturated with drugs and everyday violence. To protect himself and those he loved, Andre started pumping iron and learned to use his fists so well that he became the kind of man who could send others to the hospital with one punch, and did. Irresistibly drawn to stand up for the underdog, he was on a fast track to getting killed - or killing someone else. Nearby, his father, an eminent author, taught on a college campus and took the kids out on Sundays. The clash of worlds couldn't have been more stark--or more difficult for a son to communicate to a father. Only by becoming a writer himself could Andre begin to bridge the abyss and save himself. His memoir is a riveting, visceral, profound meditation on physical violence and the failures and triumphs of love. |
"I've never read a better or more serious meditation on violence, its sources, consequences, and, especially, its terrifying pleasures..." |
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Andre Dubus III is the author of The Garden of Last Days and House of Sand and Fog (an Oprah Book Club pick and a finalist for the National Book Award). He lives with his family north of Boston. Townie, Finalist, 2012 Indie's Choice "Book of the Year for Adult Non-fiction" Townie, (W.W. Norton, New York, New York, February 2011), a New York Times “Editors’ Choice”, 2011 “Best Books of 2011”, San Francisco Chronicle
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