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This is a sad memior. perhaps all of them are if they contain the truth. it's a cautionary tale concerning being born to a father who doesn't really want you and what happens as a consequence. it's a story played out in so much too several places in America each and every day: parentless children, drugs, dropouts, violence and hopelessness. Mr. Dubus was lucky to escape. His siblings weren't quite as lucky as he. He details well his rage and also the mouting violence that ensues. in the beginning it absolutely was often justified however later for him it became some way of life. He was lucky he did not kill somebody or end up doing a protracted jail stretch. His mother was a lost soul who couldn't take care of four young children. Mr. Dubos writes well concerning the aimlessness of those youth. And he is quite honest concerning himself. the only faut with the book other than many too long lyrical descriptions or normal events is that the fact that he can't very confront what his father did to his family. He forgives the old man (his best fried) however i wonder. Did he do it for the book or for his heart. the father he says and friends tell me was a famous author. so what? the man screwed his circle of relatives.
What is vividly recognized is also the decline of the 2 parent family. This book is a sad commentary on what happens to a society during which a operating man cna not offer for his family. Welcome to the new America. simply don't be part of it.
Townie: A Memoir Book Description:
After their parents divorced in the 1970s, 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 between town and gown, between the hard drinking, drugging, and fighting of “townies” and the ambitions of well-fed students debating books and ideas, couldn’t have been more stark or more difficult for a son to communicate to a father. Only by finally putting pen to paper himself did young Andre come into his own, discovering the power of empathy in channeling the stories of others—and ultimately bridging the rift between his father and himself.
Townie: A Memoir Book Editurial reviews:
Rarely has the process of becoming a writer seemed as organic and--dare I say it--moral as it does in Andre Dubus III's clear-eyed and compassionate memoir, Townie. You might think that following his father's trade would have been natural and even obvious for the son and namesake of Andre Dubus, one of the most admired short story writers of his time, but it was anything but. His father left when he was 10, and as his mother worked long hours to keep them fed, her four children mostly raised themselves, stumbling through house parties and street fights in their Massachusetts mill town, so cut off from the larger world that when someone mentioned "Manhattan" when Andre was in college he didn't know what they were talking about. What he did know, and what he recalls with detailed intensity, were the battles in bars and front yards, brutal to men and women alike, that first gave him discipline, as he built himself from a fearful kid into a first-punch, hair-trigger bruiser, and then empathy, as, miraculously, he pulled himself back from the violence that threatened to define him. And it was out of that empathy that, wanting to understand the stories of the victims of brutality as well as those whose pain drove them to dish it out, he began to write, reconciling with his father and eventually giving us novels like House of Sand and Fog and now this powerful and big-hearted memoir. --Tom Nissley
Townie: A Memoir Book Details:
- Hardcover: 400 pages
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company; First Edition edition (February 28, 2011)
- Language: English
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