![]() Only by becoming a writer himself could Andre begin to bridge the abyss and save himself. The clash of worlds couldn’t have been more stark-or more difficult for a son to communicate to a father. Nearby, his father, an eminent author, taught on a college campus and took the kids out on Sundays. He was on a fast track to getting killed-or killing someone else-or to beatings-for-pay as a boxer. To protect himself and those he loved from street violence, Andre learned to use his fists so well that he was even scared of himself. ![]() Andre Dubus III, author of the National Book Award–nominated House of Sand and Fog and The Garden of Last Days, reflects on his violent past and a lifestyle that threatened to destroy him-until he was saved by writing.Īfter 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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