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The Garden of Last Days: A Novel Hardcover – May 17, 2008

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From the author of the New York Times bestseller and Oprah's Book Club selection House of Sand and Fog--a new big-hearted, painful, page-turning novel.

One early September night in Florida, a stripper brings her daughter to work. April's usual babysitter is in the hospital, so she decides it's best to have her three-year-old daughter close by, watching children's videos in the office, while she works.
Except that April works at the Puma Club for Men. And tonight she has an unusual client, a foreigner both remote and too personal, and free with his money. Lots of it, all cash. His name is Bassam. Meanwhile, another man, AJ, has been thrown out of the club for holding hands with his favorite stripper, and he's drunk and angry and lonely.

From these explosive elements comes a relentless, raw, searing, passionate, page-turning narrative, a big-hearted and painful novel about sex and parenthood and honor and masculinity. Set in the seamy underside of American life at the moment before the world changed, it juxtaposes lust for domination with hunger for connection, sexual violence with family love. It seizes the reader by the throat with the same psychological tension, depth, and realism that characterized Andre Dubus's #1 bestseller, House of Sand and Fog--and an even greater sense of the dark and anguished places in the human heart.

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	Townie	Ghost Dogs	Dirty Love

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About the Book	In this unforgettable memoir, acclaimed novelist Andre Dubus III shows us how he escaped the cycle of violence and found empathy in channeling the stories of others—bridging, in the process, the rift between his father and himself.	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.	In this heartbreakingly beautiful book of disillusioned intimacy and persistent yearning, Andre Dubus III explores the bottomless needs and stubborn weaknesses of people seeking gratification in food and sex, work and love.

	House of Sand and Fog	The Garden of Last Days	Gone So Long	Such Kindness

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About the Book	As Andre Dubus III’s unforgettable characters careen toward inevitable conflict, their tragedy paints a shockingly true picture of the country we live in today.	In a relentless, raw, and page-turning narrative, Andre Dubus III draws us into the lives of three deeply flawed, driven people whose paths intersect on a September night in Florida.	Cathartic, affirming, and steeped in the empathy and precise observations of character for which Andre Dubus III is celebrated, Gone So Long explores how the wounds of the past afflict the people we become.	To one man’s painful moral journey, Andre Dubus III brings compassion with an edge of dark absurdity, forging a novel as absorbing as it is profound.

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Dubuss follow-up to "House of Sand and Fog" is inspired by the rumored visit of 9/11 hijackers to a strip club shortly before their attacks. In the fictional Puma Club, in Sarasota, Florida, a twenty-six-year-old named Bassam al-Jizani watches Spring, a stripper, undress, and finds his "hatred for these kufar rising with the knowledge of his own weakness." We know he is entranced, because he does not imagine slitting her throat, as he does with most people he encounters. Bassam recoils from the hedonistic pursuits of the West, yet finds himself drawn to them; losing his virginity to a prostitute, he wonders, "How many years will she be given by the Creator before she will burn?" Imagining the mind of a terrorist, Dubus runs into a familiar problem: Bassams thoughts are a case study in the banality of evil. "Hatred gives him strength," he writes. But it doesnt make him interesting.
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Despite criticsâ high hopes, The Garden of Last Days proves to be a âbig, uneven novel with aspirations it canât quite fulfillâ (Los Angeles Times). Andre Dubus III nimbly navigates the chasm between culturesâ"between the world of the intolerant extremist and that of the decadent Westernerâ"and draws his characters with compassion. Unfortunately, though Dubusâs research is evident, Bassam emerges as little more than a stereotype, his stilted English, peppered with Arabic phrases, awkward and forced. Dubus slows the plotâs pace to allow his characters to fully develop, but this choice drains the narrative of tension and robs the climax of its punch. Dubusâs considerable talent notwithstanding, the daring Garden does not rise to the level of its best-selling predecessor.
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ W. W. Norton & Company
Publication date ‏ : ‎ May 17, 2008
Edition ‏ : ‎ First Edition
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 544 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0393041654
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0393041651
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.05 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.7 x 1.6 x 9.6 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #2,068,712 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #2,209 in Mothers & Children Fiction
- #42,269 in Suspense Thrillers
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Andre Dubus III is the author of The Garden of Last Days, House of Sand and Fog (a #1 New York Times bestseller, Oprah’s Book Club pick, and finalist for the National Book Award) and Townie, winner of an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature. His writing has received many honors, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Magazine Award, and two Pushcart Prizes. He lives with his family north of Boston.

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