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Overview

After their parents divorced in the 1970s, Andre Dubus III and his three siblings grew up with their overworked mother in a depressed Massachusetts mill town saturated with drugs and everyday violence. Nearby, his father, an eminent author, taught on a college campus and took the kids out on Sundays. The clash between town and gown,
between the hard drinking, drugging, and fighting of "townies"
and the ambitions of students debating books and ideas,
couldn’t have been more stark. In this unforgettable memoir,
acclaimed novelist Dubus shows us how he escaped the cycle of violence and found empathy in channeling the stories of others—bridging, in the process, the rift between his father and himself.

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Andre Dubus III is the namesake of famed short story author Andre Dubus (1936-1999), but when his parents divorced during the seventies, young Andre and his three siblings went to live with their mother in mill towns in Massachusetts' Merrimack River Valley. To defend himself in his gritty new neighborhood, Andre learned to fight with a fervor that surprised even himself. Each Sunday, however, he left that rough tussle realm to spend time with his ruminative college professor father. The chasm between his two lives is, in a sense, the subject of this extraordinary, jarring coming of age memoir. (P.S. Dubus is the author of Sand and Fog, an Oprah Book Club pick and a finalist for the National Book Award.)

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Long before he became the highly acclaimed author of House of Sand and Fog, Dubus shuffled and punched his way through a childhood and youth full of dysfunction, desperation, and determination. Just after he turned 12, Dubus’s family fell rapidly into shambles after his father—the prominent writer Andre Dubus—not only left his wife for a younger woman but also left the family in distressing poverty on the violent and drug-infested side of their Massachusetts mill town. For a few years, Dubus escaped into drugs, embracing the apathetic “no-way-out” attitude of his friends. After having his bike stolen, being slapped around by some of the town’s bullies, and watching his brother and mother humiliated by some of the town’s thugs, Dubus started lifting weights at home and boxing at the local gym. Modeling himself on the Walking Tall sheriff, Buford Pusser, Dubus paid back acts of physical violence with physical violence. Ultimately, he decided to take up his pen and write his way up from the bottom and into a new relationship with his father. In this gritty and gripping memoir, Dubus bares his soul in stunning and page-turning prose. (Feb.)

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Dubus III recounts growing up after his professor/writer father, Andre Dubus, abandoned his family. He details struggling through stages of handling violence in the wake of estrangement from his father as an invisible, bullied child, unable to fight back; through being a young man determined to protect his family and others around him; to hyper-vigilance, bent on hitting first, while becoming as big and strong as possible. His journey through violence and constant reflections upon the underlying causes are powerful; it is at once a sorrowful tale of loss and one man's extraordinary path to a peaceful life.What I'm Telling My Friends: One of the most balanced, reflective, thoughtful books I've read to date. This addresses a wide range of topics with grace and depth. Julie Kane, "Memoir Short Takes", Booksmack!, 12/2/10

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A powerful, haunting memoir from acclaimed novelist Dubus III(The Garden of Last Days, 2008, etc.).

The author grew up poor in Massachusetts mill towns, the oldest of four children of the celebrated short-story writer Andre Dubus (1936–1999), who abandoned the family in 1968 to pursue a young student. Beautifully written and bursting with life, the book tells the story of a boy struggling to express his "hurt and rage," first through violence aimed at school and barroom bullies and ultimately through the power of words. Weak and shy as he entered his teens, Dubus III lived with his mother and siblings in run-down houses in crime-ridden neighborhoods, where they ate canned food for dinner and considered occasional "mystery" car rides to nowhere special with their mother a big treat. While his mother was at work, young toughs hung out at his house doing drugs. At 16, he began training with weights and grew strong to fight his tormenters, and he became a vicious brawler in a leather jacket and ponytail. Meanwhile, at nearby Bradford College, his father taught, striding across campus in his neatly trimmed beard and Australian cowboy hats. The elder Dubus sent money home and took the children out on Sundays, but otherwise remained out of touch. He eventually went through many young women and three broken marriages. At Bradford, which he entered as a student, Dubus III was known only as his father's son, "such a townie." Although the author stopped expecting anything from his father, he yearned for the connection that finally came years later when he helped care for the elder Dubus after the 1986 car accident that crushed his legs. By then, Dubus III had found a new way to draw on the anger of the "semi-abandoned," turning his punches into sentences. His compassionate memoir abounds with exquisitely rendered scenes of fighting, cheating, drugging, drinking and loving.

A striking, eloquent account of growing up poor and of the making of a writer.

Darcey Steinke

…powerful…As this fine memoir closes, Dubus is concerned with a fundamental question: Can he care for a father who did not really take care of him? To the book's credit (and the author's), he does not lean on easy redemption.
—The New York Times Book Review

Dwight Garner

Townie is a better, harder book than anything the younger Mr. Dubus has yet written; it pays off on every bet that's been placed on him. It's a sleek muscle car of a memoir that…growls like an amalgam of the best work by Richard Price, Stephen King, Ron Kovic, Breece D'J Pancake and Dennis Lehane, set to the desolate thumping of Bruce Springsteen's "Darkness on the Edge of Town"…Mr. Dubus's prose is clear, supple, unshowy. He gets a lot across with a few words.
—The New York Times

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Andre Dubus III's memoir, Townie, should be lauded for a few worthy things. Dubus's story of his once-ideal childhood followed by bereft adolescence -- in which his father, the acclaimed author Andre Dubus II, was mostly absent and in which uncertainty, hardship, and aimlessness were constant companions -- is a cool examination of the shifting relationships between parents and children, husbands and wives, brothers and sisters. It's also an unsentimental portrayal (and for that reason a welcome and engrossing one) of the lives of writers and the demands of vocation. And it's a rough tribute to the blighted industrial towns of Massachusetts during the '70s, when the feathers were dropping off the wings of prosperity for blue-collar America.

But what stands out about Dubus's memoir, which reads like the kind of book a writer has been waiting his whole life to produce -- one in which the sentences are unforced and exact, and the voice is placid with wisdom and generosity -- is its violence. Townie offers some of the best writing in recent American literature on how common and unremarkable the crunching of noses, the slicing of stomachs, and the stomping of heads is to the experience of a vast number of young men. What's more, the world in which these sometimes appalling fights (if you can call them that; they're closer to whirlwinds of rage) take place isn't quite the one we've been conditioned to expect. These aren't the favelas; we're not in West Baltimore. These are white kids, most of them from the lower-middle class.

True, some of them come from more comfortable circumstances than their peers, and some of their parents are even educated. But all of them party, go to school, or plain hang out under a colossal threat, one all the more stunning for how it's downplayed if not outright ignored. And if they survive their teen years? They get to spend their adult days in the mill bars, "darkened, nearly windowless caves filled with men and women drinking and smoking." The kids know the "stories of knifings or shootings in these places, of brawls with guys getting their teeth knocked out, their noses broken, their jaws splintered and having to be wired shut." This is to say nothing of the women who are assaulted or worse.

Townie's through-line is the story of how Dubus, who's perhaps best known for his well-received novel House of Sand and Fog, navigated the brutality around him, going from an ineffectual skinny kid who's powerless from stopping a grown man hammering on his kid brother's face, to a hardened boy who tears out the engine of his psyche and reconstructs himself into a hulking weightlifter and sometime boxer who has no problem tearing through the "membrane" of humanity encircling all of us. Fight after fight, Dubus can do so with increasing ease, and the results leave him with blood-spattered clothes and ruined knuckles -- and drained an ounce less of the stuff that makes us fit to be in society. "Again, there was this almost electric hum in my bones that I had somehow gotten myself wired wrong," Dubus writes, "that now I was stuck with impulses I could not control, ones that could lead to nothing but deeper and deeper trouble."

Like womanizing (another badge of indignity earned by teen boys), street fighting is about much more than sating primal impulses. It speaks to a ravenous emptiness, and a need to fill it, doing so with jolts of action and exhilaration that deliver diminishing returns. Dubus gives as concrete a dissection of this particular illness as one could hope. (It's a sickness that extends to the men responsible for them. Dubus's father was but one of many who fell in thrall to his son's physical courage; there's pride in having a bad-ass in the family.) And he gives as equally a clear-eyed account of how he escaped that death spiral.

Dubus found deliverance in books and in higher learning. His transformation from human wrecking ball to a man strong enough to renounce violence is no small triumph. That his brother and sister also find their way out of the same morass, though not without scars of all sorts, is something of a miracle. They are, however, the lucky ones. They're bright, even gifted, and have the benefit of a wonderful if imperfect mother whose dedication to her children's welfare is heroic. Dubus notes all the guys who didn't survive. Townie is a lament for them, and a blistering reminder for the rest of us who may have forgotten how fraught the path is to adulthood.

--Oscar Villalon

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780393064667
Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date: 2/28/2011
Pages: 400
Sales rank: 63,732
Product dimensions: 6.40 (w) x 9.40 (h) x 1.50 (d)

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Andre Dubus III

Andre Dubus III is the author of Townie, 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.

Biography

Although writing runs in the family (his father is the late, award-winning short story writer Andres Dubus, and his cousin is bestselling mystery author James Lee Burke), Andre Dubus III never intended to pursue the literary life.

Raised by his divorced, cash-strapped mother in a series of drab, blue-collar towns in Massachusetts, Dubus attended 14 different schools before he was 18. As perpetual "new kids on the block," he and his siblings were bullied unmercifully; Dubus grew up fiercely protective of his brother and sisters and furious at the world for its injustices. After high school, he enrolled in Bradford College in Haverhill, MA, where his famous father taught creative writing -- and where it was generally assumed he would follow suit.

But, writing was the last thing Dubus wanted to do. He transferred to the University of Texas at Austin, studied sociology and political science, and graduated as a dedicated Marxist with a burning desire to right the world's wrongs. He took a year off from his studies and returned to Massachusetts, where he worked construction and channeled his pugilism into training for the Golden Gloves. He also began dating a student from his father's fiction class. One day, she showed him a manuscript written by one of her more talented classmates. Dubus was blown away by its beauty and spent the rest of the summer working on a short story he describes as "not very good." Nonetheless, he was well and truly hooked. Despite his best efforts to avoid genetic destiny, Dubus ended up going into the family business.

Over the next few years, Dubus supported himself as a carpenter, actor, bartender, boxer, private investigator, and bounty hunter -- deliberately choosing jobs that would free up his mornings for writing. His first book, The Cage Keeper and Other Stories appeared in 1980, followed by the novel Bluesman in 1993. He devoted more than four years to House of Sand and Fog, the heartbreaking story of two fragile people enmeshed in an ownership dispute over a small house in the California hills. Considered by many to be his finest work, the book was nominated for a 1999 National Book Award and became an Oprah Book Club pick.

Nine years later, Dubus returned with The Garden of Last Days, a mesmerizing novel that imagines the lives of the 9/11 hijackers who embedded themselves into the fabric of American society while secretly plotting its destruction. Dubus has said that the novel began with the recurring vision of a single haunting image -- a wad of cash atop a bedroom dresser. Slowly, he came to see that the cash belonged to a stripper who worked in a seedy Florida club visited by the terrorist who would pilot the plane into the World Trade Center. In its review, Esquire called the novel "riveting and disturbing, as beautiful as it is bleak," and critics heralded it as a searing return to form for the bestselling author.

Good To Know

House of Sand and Fog was adapted for a 2003 Academy Award-nominated motion picture starring Jennifer Connelly and Ben Kingsley.

1. Hometown:
  
  Newbury, MA
1. Date of Birth:
  
  1959
2. Place of Birth:
  
  California
1. Education:
  
  University of Texas at Austin

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JellyBean1919

Posted August 18, 2011

Not great literature but, an okay book.

Highly oversold. The marketing is better than the read and sells to slumming, literary adults expecting noir. But, where the subjecture deserves grit, you get "The room smelled of almonds..." (not an excerpt)

I'm not trying to knock the effort. More to target the audience. The marketing doesn't tell you the subject(s) are adult but, the book itself is not. If you can invision all of the reviews to be written by bright, Jr. High boys, who's parents don't censor - you'll know if it is or is not for you.

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Posted April 6, 2011

This is a tremendous read!

Andre Dubus III has brought to life a painful place and time with such insight and forgiveness.As he spans his life and gains distance from adolescence his ability to forgive his father, his tormentors and himself is compelling. The personal growth and insight he shares is a testament to his heart. This is a memoir to devour and savor.

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Posted March 9, 2011

If you read only one memoir this year ...

This is the most compelling memoir I've read in decades. Not only does it entertain (un-put-downable) but it imparts one lesson after another on dealing with life's issues in the best and worst of times!

This is a memoir of survival. It's beautifully and honestly written and it will no doubt be read as a classic by generations to come. Thank you Mr. Dubus.

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Posted December 7, 2011

Insightful view of the working class in the 60s

It seems I liked this more than most readers. Perhaps because I am the same age and economic background as the writer. Still, I thought is was a really good read and showed a slice of American life not usually written about today. Somewhat reminded me of an adult version of The Outsiders.
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richard48

Posted September 17, 2011

Not recommended

The rough times, fights and lifting weights Andre spends so much time describing was common amongst myself and other young men at this age. The area in which I grew up was much worse. I'm sure others had it harder and didn't have to write about how tough they thought they were. Come on, it's Boston. You can also only mention the music of the era, song by song, so much. It got old fast.

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Posted June 24, 2011

Fantastic Book!

My husband and I both read this book and really enjoyed it! I grew up in a town close to Haverhill and I came to town with my High School for sporting events. I remember all of downtown being either boarded up or having bars and a rough crowd. It was a scary place in those days and I was forbidden by my parents to go downtown. We live even closer to Haverhill now and are enjoying all the benefits of the restoration. The restaurants are wonderful and the entire downtown area has new shops and and lots of places to explore. I just watched Chronicle on Channel Five and they highlighted "Townie," Andre Dubus III and the "new" Haverhill! This book is a true depiction of life in Haverhill if you lived on the wrong side of the Merrimack River in those days. Congratulations to Andre Dubus III for a wonderful read, I couldn't put it down! Hopefully, the book becomes a movie soon!
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Posted April 20, 2011

A Contemporary American Master

Dubus makes the seamless switch from fiction to nonfiction look easy. This is a gripping, genuine, and visceral memoir that grabs hold of you on the very first page and never lets go.
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I was interested from the very first page. I found the author's story to be so inspiring. This book reminded me at time of This Boy's Life by Tobias Wolf except it was better.
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powerful !

Painfully honest....

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