Bibliograph

Ghost dogs, on killers and kin, Andre Dubus III

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Ghost dogs, on killers and kin, Andre Dubus III

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Ghost dogs

Responsibility statement

Andre Dubus III

Sub title

on killers and kin

Summary

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. --, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Fences and fields -- The golden zone -- The land of no -- Blood, root, knit, purl -- Carver and Dubus, New York City, 1988 -- Falling -- The door -- Shelter -- If I owned a gun -- Beneath -- High life -- Risk -- A letter to my two sons on love -- Vigilance and surrender -- Mary -- Ghost dogs -- Pappy -- Relapse

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