03838cam a2200385 4500 231588596 TxAuBib 20150531120000.0 ||||||s2011||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781483059549 1483059545 704afe99-b062-4ae2-b3aa-cfa6671c2850 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 503955 OverDrive (Product ID) 9781538597934 503955 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib III, Andre Dubus. Townie [Libby] : A Memoir. Blackstone Audio, Inc., 2011. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 401MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 401MB. Biography & Autobiography. Nonfiction. "The best first-person account of an author's life I have ever read.". HTML:—James Lee Burke, <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author. In this raw and splendid memoir, the author of the acclaimed novel HOUSE OF SOUND AND FOG explores his relationship with his father, Andre Dubus II, a well-known writer who left the family when Dubus III was a boy. The author and his three siblings were left to a life of poverty and drugs in a run-down mill town in Massachusetts. Dubus copes with the onslaught of violence against him and his family by building up his muscles and his courage, and soon develops a taste for blood. Dubus's even voice wonderfully conveys the teenager's formidable fighting experiences as well as the uncanny flashes of insight that led him to relinquish the urge to fight and to focus on his own writing. F.J.K. (c) AudioFile 2011, Portland, Maine. AudioFile Magazine. HTML:<p>Andre Dubus III, author of the National Book Award nominated <i>House of Sand and Fog</i> and <i>The Garden of Last Days</i>, reflects on his violent past and a lifestyle that threatened to destroy him—until he was saved by writing.</p> <p>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—or to beatings-for-pay as a boxer.</p> <p>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.</p>. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2015-08-01 20:00:02. http://sandoval.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=704afe99-b062-4ae2-b3aa-cfa6671c2850 http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-25/0887-1/503955-Townie.wma Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/0887-1/503955-Townie.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) http://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=704AFE99-B062-4AE2-B3AA-CFA6671C2850&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-25/0887-1/503955-Townie.wma Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/0887-1/503955-Townie.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) http://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=704AFE99-B062-4AE2-B3AA-CFA6671C2850&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)