Ghost Dogs: On Killers and Kin
Title | Ghost Dogs: On Killers and Kin PDF eBook |
Author | Andre Dubus III |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 214 |
Release | 2024-03-05 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1324000457 |
From the literary master and best-selling author of Townie, reflections on a life of challenges, contradictions, and fulfillments. During childhood summers in Louisiana, Andre Dubus III’s grandfather taught him that men’s work is hard. As an adult, whether tracking down a drug lord in Mexico as a bounty hunter or grappling with privilege while living with a rich girlfriend in New York City, Dubus worked—at being a better worker and a better human being. In Ghost Dogs, Dubus’s nonfiction prowess is on full display in his retelling of his own successes, failures, triumphs, and pain. In his longest essay, “If I Owned a Gun,” Dubus reflects on the empowerment and shame he felt in keeping a gun, and his decision, ultimately, to give it up. Elsewhere, he writes of a violent youth and of settled domesticity and fatherhood, about the omnipresent expectations and contradictions of masculinity, about the things writers remember and those they forget. Drawing upon kindred literary spirits from Rilke to Rumi to Tim O’Brien, Ghost Dogs renders moments of personal revelation with emotional generosity and stylistic grace, ultimately standing as essential witness and testimony to the art of the essay.
Ghost Dogs
Title | Ghost Dogs PDF eBook |
Author | Andre Dubus |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2025-03-11 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9781324105046 |
From the literary master and best-selling author of Townie, reflections on a life of challenges, contradictions, and fulfillments.
Legend of the Ghost Dog
Title | Legend of the Ghost Dog PDF eBook |
Author | Elizabeth Cody Kimmel |
Publisher | Scholastic Inc. |
Pages | 161 |
Release | 2012-11-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0545469996 |
A thrilling mystery set against a stark landscape and the inspiration of Nome's real-life dog hero, Balto. Twelve-year-old Tee has just moved to Nome, Alaska, with her writer father and sullen little brother, Jack. Jack isn't happy about the idea of living in the middle of nowhere, but Tee and her dog Henry are thrilled -- so much open space to run around and sniff! But on a walk near their new house, Henry spots something that has him seriously spooked. Tee sees a mysterious shadow, and it seems to be following them. Have they disturbed a restless spirit? And what other secrets might this dark place be holding?
House of Sand and Fog
Title | House of Sand and Fog PDF eBook |
Author | Andre Dubus |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 507 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Domestic fiction |
ISBN | 0393046974 |
The Oprah Book Club selection for November 2000.
The Garden of Last Days
Title | The Garden of Last Days PDF eBook |
Author | Andre Dubus |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 556 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780393041651 |
Explosive elements coverge one early September night in a Florida men's club revealing the seamy underside of American life at the moment before the world changed.
Dirty Love
Title | Dirty Love PDF eBook |
Author | Andre Dubus |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 2013-10-07 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0393064654 |
A collection of short stories examining the lives of suburbanites seeking solace and gratification in food, sex, work, and love.
Adultery & Other Choices
Title | Adultery & Other Choices PDF eBook |
Author | Andre Dubus |
Publisher | Open Road Media |
Pages | 169 |
Release | 2010-11-23 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 145329970X |
This “haunting and subtle” collection of short stories offers a compassionate portrayal of man’s journey from childhood to maturity (Publishers Weekly). For the adolescents in Part One of Andre Dubus’s Adultery & Other Choices, youth is characterized by humiliation, alienation, and disappointment: A son struggles to connect with his distant father, and later he must overcome a schoolyard bully. Then, for the soldiers that inhabit Part Two, service is synonymous with sacrifice, as marriages and limbs falter and fail. But for the bitterly lonely wife of a promiscuous professor, a hopeless affair with a dying ex-priest provides her with the strength necessary to retake control of her life. In the aptly titled follow-up to Separate Flights, Dubus expertly traces the arc of human life, and honors the men and women he portrays with such faithful veracity. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Andre Dubus including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s estate.