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Title	:	Townie
Author	:	Andre Dubus III
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special 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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Remember the TV show, BATMAN? All the fistfights? How your screen blossomed with words like BIFF! POW! CRA-A-ACK! SPLAT! and so forth? Well roll out the soundtrack and play it as you read Andre Dubus III's TOWNIE. It's one street fight after another (peppered with a few boxing matches for variety, I suppose). Call me a Pip, but I had Great Expectations for this book. I expected a literary memoir of a kid who cut his teeth on the art of writing with a well-known, published dad. I expected

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

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

This was a little difficult reading for me...it hit close to home. Single mother raising 4 kids in a violent neighborhood. Dubus takes us through his upbringing and what has to be done to survive. I did get a little sick of all the violence at one point and wondered when he was going to turn it all around. He gets there, it just takes a while. Amazing characterizations, gritty read. He doesn't pull any punches when remembering all the details of his life. I found myself relating to Dubus in so

This book was simply amazing. Maybe I liked it so much because I grew up in the 60's and 70's in Massachusetts near an old mill town similiar to Haverhill. Maybe because I loved The House of Sand and Fog & The Garden of Last Days. Not sure but it was a gripping read. I don't usually read Memoirs with the exception of Life by Keith Richards, but I was hooked from page one in Townie. What a tough life Andre had as a boy growing up. The fact that he became a wonderful author is truly amazing! I

The memoir Townie by Andre Dubus III is a striking and worthwhile read for so many reasons. Its always interesting to learn how a bestselling author got his start, but Id always assumed that Dubusbest known for his dark and gripping novel House of Sand and Foghad it a bit easier than most. After all, hes the son of one of Americas greatest short story writers (the late Andre Dubus II).But Townie makes it clear that this wasnt the case for the younger Dubus. It turns out that he grew up in

I totally agree with Dwight Garner of the New York Times when he writes of this book, "Townie is a better, harder book than anything (Dubus III) has yet writer; it pays off on every bet that's been placed on him. A sleek muscle car of a memoir."The core theme of the memoir is men's, particularly his, relationship to violence. As a kid he was a victim of it. This part of the book was hard to read and I almost bailed out on the book because I wanted him to stop being a victim and stand up for