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Monday, June 9th

W. W. Norton

Price: $24.95

ANDRE DUBUS III reads from
The Garden of Last Days: A Novel

 

$5 tickets on sale now.

Harvard Book Store is delighted to host award-winning author ANDRE DUBUS III for a reading and discussion of his newest novel, The Garden of Last Days. (The reading and book-signing will be followed by a screening of House of Sand and Fog at 8 pm. See brattlefilm.org for film ticket details.)

The Bret Anthony Johnston review of The Garden of Last Days in Esquire magazine:

"The terrorists were anything but cowards. That's what Bill Maher said on air a week after 9/11. And then he was patriotically canned by ABC.

"In his new novel, which is muscular and disquieting and turn-the-pages-so-fast-you-tear-them good, Andre Dubus III raises the stakes on Maher's political incorrectness. His book doesn't ask you to see the terrorists as brave or cowardly; it forces you to see them simply as men, as human. Ballsy move.

"The swift, fragmented narrative mostly unfolds at a Florida strip club, and the evening is spent with a terrorist who drives a leased Neon, a stripper who brings her toddler to work, a patron who gets bounced for innocently touching a dancer, and a landlord who, had she not taken ill, might have saved everyone.

"When the critics weigh in, there will be plenty of chatter about how Dubus so deeply inhabits even the most disturbing characters. And rightly so. But the book's most profound achievement is a far more difficult one: the omnipresence of hope in a hopeless place. The Garden of Last Days is riveting and disturbing, as beautiful as it is bleak, and if there are cowards among the cast of broken characters, I couldn't find them." 

Andre Dubus III speaks about building his own house, family, writing, his characters, the image that Garden of Last Days grew out of, and more here in this video clip: http://www.blip.tv/file/851251

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Andre Dubus III is the author of a collection of short fiction, The Cage Keeper and Other Stories, and the novels Bluesman and House of Sand and Fog. His work has been included in The Best American Essays of 1994, The Best Spiritual Writing of 1999, and The Best of Hope Magazine. He has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, the National Magazine Award for fiction, the Pushcart Prize, and was a Finalist for the Prix de Rome Fellowship from the Academy of Arts and Letters. An Academy Award-nominated motion picture and published in seventeen languages, his novel House of Sand and Fog was a fiction finalist for the National Book Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the L.L. Winship/PEN New England Award, Booksense Book of the Year, and was an Oprah Book Club Selection and #1 New York Times bestseller. A member of PEN American Center and the Executive Board of PEN New England, Dubus has served as a panelist for the National Book Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and has taught writing at Harvard University, Tufts University, and the University of Massachusetts at Lowell. He is married to performer Fontaine Dollas Dubus. They live in Massachusetts with their three children.

Photo by Marion Ettlinger.