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by Andre Dubus III

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Language EN
Total Pages 387 pages
ISBN
9780393064667
Published
2011
Description
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...
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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.
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