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Andre Dubus

Townie: A Memoir

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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 to… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-393-06466-7
  • EAN: 9780393064667
  • Produktnummer: 22013538
  • Verlag: W W Norton & Co
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
  • Seitenangabe: 387 S.
  • Masse: H24.4 cm x B16.7 cm x D4.0 cm 732 g
  • Gewicht: 732

Über den Autor


Andre Dubus III is the author of Gone So Long, Dirty Love, The Garden of Last Days, House of Sand and Fog (a #1 New York Times bestseller, Oprah's Book Club pick, and finalist for the National Book Award), and Townie, winner of an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature. His writing has received many honors, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Magazine Award, and two Pushcart Prizes. He lives with his family north of Boston.

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