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.
This haunting memoir is as explosive as a Muhammad Ali prize fight, as vivid as a Basquiat canvas.... Townie moves with the accelerating momentum of a thriller novel, plumbs the depths of a bittersweet love affair, and rends the reader's heart in two.--Dan Cryer
Title: Townie
Subtitle: a memoir
Contributors:
By (author)
Andre Dubus III
ISBN 13: 9780393340679
ISBN 10: 0393340678
Publisher: WW Norton & Co
Imprint: WW Norton & Co
Publication Date: 17/04/2012
Place of Publication:
New York,
United States
Edition:
BIC Subjects:
Biography & autobiography: literary
NBS Classification: Autobiography: General
Dewey Classification:
813.54
(DC23)
;
813.54
(DC21)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 400
Height: 250mm
Width: 150mm
Thickness: 15mm
Weight: 666g