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W W Norton & Co Inc
March 2011
On Sale: February 28, 2011
400 pages
ISBN: 0393064662
EAN: 9780393064667
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Non-Fiction Memoir
An acclaimed novelist reflects on his violent past and a
lifestyle that threatened to destroy him—until he was saved
by writing.
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 crime. To protect himself and those he loved from
street violence, Andre learned to use his fists so well that
he was even scared of himself. He was on a fast track to
getting killed—or killing someone else. He signed on as a boxer. Nearby, his father, an eminent author, taught on a college
campus and took the kids out on Sundays. The clash of worlds
couldn’t have been more stark—or more difficult for a son to
communicate to a father. Only by becoming a writer himself
could Andre begin to bridge the abyss and save himself. His
memoir is a riveting, visceral, profound meditation on
physical violence and the failures and triumphs of love.
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