House of Sand and Fog

House of Sand and Fog

Author: Andre Dubus

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 460

ISBN-13: 0393046974

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The Oprah Book Club selection for November 2000.


The Garden of Last Days

The Garden of Last Days

Author: Andre Dubus

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 556

ISBN-13: 9780393041651

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Explosive elements coverge one early September night in a Florida men's club revealing the seamy underside of American life at the moment before the world changed.


Dirty Love

Dirty Love

Author: Andre Dubus

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2013-10-07

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 0393064654

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A collection of short stories examining the lives of suburbanites seeking solace and gratification in food, sex, work, and love.


Gone So Long: A Novel

Gone So Long: A Novel

Author: Andre Dubus III

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2018-10-02

Total Pages: 373

ISBN-13: 0393244113

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"Taut with tension.… [E]nding with a hint of hope."—Rob Merrill, Associated Press Cathartic, affirming, and steeped in the empathy and precise observations of character for which Dubus is celebrated, Gone So Long explores how the wounds of the past afflict the people we become. Gone So Long is a riveting family drama about an ex-con who did time for murder, the estranged daughter he hasn’t seen in forty years, and the grandmother angry enough to kill him. A profound exploration of the struggle between the selves we wish to be, and the ones—shaped by chance and circumstance, as well as character—that we can’t escape, it confirms Andre Dubus’s reputation as a novelist whose “compassion is unsentimental and unblinking, total and unwavering” (Paul Harding).


Townie

Townie

Author: Andre Dubus

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2012-02-06

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 0393340678

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I've never read a better or more serious meditation on violence, its sources, consequences, and, especially, its terrifying pleasures, than "Townie." It's a brutal and, yes, thrilling memoir that sheds real light on the creative process of two of our best writers, Andre Dubus III and his famous, much revered father. You'll never read the work of either man in quite the same way afterward. You may not view the world in quite the same way either.--Richard Russo, author of "Empire Falls."


Bluesman

Bluesman

Author: Andre Dubus III

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2001-02-13

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 0375725164

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With House of Sand and Fog, his National Book Award-nominated novel, Andre Dubus III demonstrated his mastery of the complexities of character and desire. In this earlier novel he captures a roiling time in American history and the coming-of-age of a boy who must decide between desire, ambition, and duty. In the summer of 1967, Leo Suther has one more year of high school to finish and a lot more to learn. He's in love with the beautiful Allie Donovan who introduces him to her father, Chick — a construction foreman and avowed Communist. Soon Leo finds himself in the midst of a consuming love affair and an intense testing of his political values. Chick's passionate views challenge Leo's perspective on the escalating Vietnam conflict and on just where he stands in relation to the new people in his life. Throughout his — and the nation's — unforgettable "summer of love," Leo is learning the language of the blues, which seem to speak to the mourning he feels for his dead mother, his occasionally distant father, and the youth which is fast giving way to manhood.


The Cage Keeper

The Cage Keeper

Author: Andre Dubus III

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2007-12-18

Total Pages: 173

ISBN-13: 0307428230

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Passion and betrayal, violent desperation, ambivalent love that hinges on hatred, and the quest for acceptance by those who stand on the edge of society-these are the hard-hitting themes of a stunningly crafted first collection of stories by the bestselling author of House of Sand and Fog. A vigilant young man working in a halfway house finds himself unable to defend against the rage of one of the inmates in the title story. In "White Trees, Hammer Moon," a man soon to leave home for prison finds himself as unprepared for a family camping trip in the mountains of New Hampshire as he has been for most things in his life. And in the award-winning "Forky," an ex-con is haunted by the punishment he receives just as he is being released into the world. With an incisive ability to inhabit the lives of his characters, Dubus travels deep into the heart of the elusive American dream.


Meditations from a Movable Chair

Meditations from a Movable Chair

Author: Andre Dubus

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 1999-04-06

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 0679751157

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The twenty-five luminous and intensely personal essays in this collection are, like Andre Dubus's celebrated short stories, a testament to the author's vulnerability, vision, and indestructible faith. Since losing one leg and the use of the other in a 1986 accident, Dubus has experienced despair, learned acceptance, and, finally, found joy in the sacramental magic of even the most quotidian tasks. Whether he is writing of the relationship with his father, the rape of his beloved sister, his Catholic faith, the suicide of a gay naval officer, his admiration for fellow writers like Hemingway and Mailer, or the simple act of making sandwiches for his daughters' lunchboxes, Dubus cuts straight to the heart of things. Here we have a master at the height of his powers, an artist whose work "is suffused with grace, bathed in a kind of spiritual glow" (The New York Times Book Review).


Three Weeks to Say Goodbye

Three Weeks to Say Goodbye

Author: C.J. Box

Publisher: Minotaur Books

Published: 2009-01-06

Total Pages: 363

ISBN-13: 1429989106

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New York Times bestselling author C.J. Box's novels have been called "red hot" (Booklist) and "edge-of-your-seat read[s]" (Omaha World-Herald). Now he delivers a novel that will steal your sleep as much as it will wrench your heart. Three Weeks to Say Goodbye is a novel about something that could be anyone's worst nightmare. . . Jack and Melissa McGuane have spent years trying to have a baby. Finally their dream has come true with the adoption of their daughter, Angelina. But nine months after bringing her home, they receive a devastating phone call... Angelina's birth father, a teenager, never signed away his parental rights—and he wants her back. Worse, his father, a powerful Denver judge, will use every trick in the book to make sure it happens. The McGuanes attempt to meet face-to-face with the father and son...but soon it becomes clear that there's something sinister about their motivations—and that love for Angelina is not one of them. A horrifying game of intimidation and double crosses begins that quickly becomes a death spiral where everyone is suspect and no one is safe. Now Jack and Melissa will stop at nothing to protect their child—even though time is running out... C.J. Box has once again written a bone-chilling thriller that will keep you guessing until the very last page.


Sand and Foam

Sand and Foam

Author: Kahlil Gibran

Publisher:

Published: 1926

Total Pages: 118

ISBN-13:

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A book of aphorisms, poems, and parables by the author of "The Prophet" - a philosopher at his window commenting on the scene passing below.