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Townie - A Memoir (Hardcover)
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Townie - A Memoir (Hardcover)
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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 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. An unforgettable book,
Townie is a riveting and profound meditation on physical violence
and the failures and triumphs of love.
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