The best first-person account of an author’s life I have ever read. He shows that truth can be as honest as fiction.ĭubus has an eye for searing detail that is unequaled so far this century…and he employs that here to maximum effect. is such a solid writer, he redeems the genre. From father to son, the torch has passed. 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. As a meditation on violence, from an author who once embraced it, it is shocking, necessary and indispensable. Harrowing and strange and beautiful…This book marks an important moment in the growing body of Dubus’s work.Īs a memoir, and as a family story, Townie is beautiful and almost perfectly executed. Townie is a better, harder book than anything has yet written it pays off on every bet that’s been placed on him.
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