Townie by Andre Dubus III6/21/2023 ![]() ![]() But the surprise of Townie is that, while literature isn't absent, the book's real focus lies elsewhere, in the quite separate (though not, Dubus suggests, wholly disconnected) realm of male violence.ĭubus's family (he is the second of four children) moved from Iowa to Massachusetts when he was eight, when his father, an ex-Marine, got a job teaching writing at a small college. From these facts, it would be natural to assume that Townie: A Memoir would have a strong literary flavour: that authors and books would feature on almost every page that the writing life would be extensively chronicled. Andre III – born in 1959 – is the author of three novels, including the 1999 bestseller House of Sand and Fog. Dubus's father, Andre Dubus II, was a well‑known short-story writer whose work was feted for its psychological realism. ![]() ![]() T hough his name might not lead you to think it, Andre Dubus III is the younger half of America's answer to Kingsley and Martin Amis. ![]()
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