Townie: A Memoir [Paperback]

Harrowing and strange and beautiful&This book marks an important moment in the growing body of Dubuss work.As a memoir, and as a family story,This haunting memoir is as explosive as a Muhammad Ali prize fight, as vivid as a Basquiat canvas&This wrenching story can only strengthen the reputation of Andre Dubus III. From father to son, the torch has passed.A stormy and courageous memoir.[Dubus III] is such a solid writer, he redeems the genre. He shows that truth can be as honest as fiction.Dubus has an eye for searing detail that is unequaled so far this century&and he employs that here to maximum effect.The best first-person account of an authors life I have ever read. The violence that is described is the kind that is with us every day, whether we recognize it or not. The characters are wonderful?and compassionately drawn. I sincerely believe Andre Dubus may be the best writer in America. His?talent is enormous. No one who reads this book will ever forget it.Whatever it cost Dubus to bare his soul and write this brutally honest and life-affirming memoir, it is an extraordinary gift to his readers.Ive never read a better or more serious?meditation on?violence,?its sources, consequences,?and, especially, its terrifying pleasures, than Dubus relives, absent self-pity or blame, a life shaped by bouts of violence and flurries of tenderness.