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Andre Dubus III, writer of the National Book Award-nominated House of Fine sand and Fog and The Garden of Last Days and nights, demonstrates on his violent past and a lifestyle that threatened to ruin him-until he was saved by writing. After their parents divorced in the 1970s, Andre Dubus III and his three siblings was raised with their exhausted working mom in a stressed out Massachusetts mill town saturated with drugs and criminal offenses. To safeguard himself and the ones he enjoyed from street violence, Andre learned to make use of his fists so well that he was even frightened of himself. He was on a fast track to finding killed-or eradicating someone else-or to beatings-for-pay as a boxer. Near by, his dad, an eminent creator, taught on the college campus and required the kids from Sundays. The clash of worlds couldn't have been more stark-or more challenging for a boy to talk to a dad. Only by learning to be a writer himself could Andre start to bridge the abyss and save himself. His memoir is a riveting, visceral, serious meditation on assault and the failures and triumphs of love.
