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Title	:	Townie
Author	:	Andre Dubus III
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 387 pages
Published	:	February 28th 2011 by W. W. Norton Company (first published 2011)
Categories	:	Autobiography. Memoir. Nonfiction. Biography

Townie

Andre Dubus III

Hardcover | Pages: 387 pages

Rating: 3.75 | 7088 Users | 1161 Reviews

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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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Original Title:	Townie
ISBN:	0393064662 (ISBN13: 9781203026219)
Edition Language:	English URL http://andredubus.com/townie.html
Literary Awards:	Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Memoir & Autobiography (2011)

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The most interesting and moving memoir Ive ever read. This book tracks the life - particularly the early life - of this excellent writer through a series of roughly chronological memories and anecdotes. Brought up in tough New England towns, he tells of how he was the recipient of regular beatings from the local hard cases. This pattern continued as he moved from one run down area to the next until he decided to change things by developing his own body, through boxing and weight lifting, to

Dubus's novels are difficult to read without getting worked up into a frenzy that involves symptoms not unlike severe stress or paranoia. At least for me, anyway. Shortness of breath, increased heart rate, even sweats - these things happen. His memoir does not include the same scenes of riveting tension and personal anguish that populate his other works, but I found myself still getting worked up reading this - especially the early scenes of his torment as a young child.A skinny kid, raised by a

After she finished reading Andre Dubus III's new memoir Townie one of my friends called me and asked, "Is this book as good as I think it is or is it just that I grew up around all of these places he writes about?" I told her that while place is certainly important in the book, the book is exactly as good as she thinks it is. And it is.And so what of this place where my friend, and Dubus, and I now live? This place is the north shore of Massachusetts, once known for its down-in-the-mouth mill

I grew up in Haverhill, Mass, and lied about being from elsewhere for most of my life. It was a rough town in rough years. Mr. Dubus perfectly evoked the violence and hardscrabble existence of living there. He honored the New England tradition of providing real estate as a character and moreover he did justice to Haverhill by making her as worthy a character as Miss Havisham: formerly beautiful now past her prime, a wreck but one deserving of pity.How interesting that he called himself a

One of the best memoirs I've read. I loved it for the forgiveness he came to, for the honesty he brought to the issue of fighting and violence and the impulse to fight and the transformation that happened to him as he faced the emptiness of violence and the shame of it. I loved how he addressed violence and really parsed it out for all the things that it signifies for people---the glorification of it, the defense of it, the vulnerability behind it, the mask of it. That's just some of what I



It was like getting a tooth drilled or being hit over the head by the same damn bat. I'll pass on this one- thank you very much.The same scenes repeated endlessly. Hopelessness, cruelty, fear and abandonment abound in this book. It's a bleak tale and a place I choose not to visit any longer than reading the 67 pages I spent there. I've believed Dubus to be brilliant based on "House of Sand and Fog" but the writing in this book is meandering, inconclusive and confusing. Often I would read a