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01921aam a2200337Ka 4500 001 47E20B2CBB6911E18DFFB5C36AFF544E 003 SILO 005 20120621010344 008 110630s2012 xx 000 0 eng d 020 $a 0393340678 (pbk.) 020 $a 9780393340679 (pbk.) 035 $a (OCoLC)738350210 040 $a BTCTA $b eng $c BTCTA $d SILO $d UKMGB $d NOG $d BDX $d SILO 100 1 $a Dubus, Andre, $d 1959- 245 1 $a Townie : $b a memoir / $c Andre Dubus III. 260 $a New York : $b W.W. Norton & Co., $c c2012. 300 $a 400 p. ; $c 21 cm. 520 $a After their parents divorce in the 1970's, 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. 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. He was on a fast track to getting killed, or killing someone else, or to beatings-for-pay as a boxer. Nearby, his father, an eminent author, taught on a college campus and took the kids out on Sundays. The clash of worlds couldn't have been more stark or more difficult for a son to communicate to a father. Only by becoming a writer himself could Andre begin to bridge the abyss and save himself. 600 10 $a Dubus, Andre, $d 1959- 600 10 $a Dubus, Andre, $d 1959- $x Childhood and youth. 600 10 $a Dubus, Andre, $d 1959- $x Family. 650 0 $a Authors, American $y 20th century $v Biography. 650 0 $a Social classes $z Merrimack River Valley (N.H. and Mass.) 650 0 $a Violence $z Merrimack River Valley (N.H. and Mass.) 941 $a 4 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20200204060849.0 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20200110042741.0 952 $l WSPF215 $d 20150410022011.0 952 $l SCPC074 $d 20140131021448.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=47E20B2CBB6911E18DFFB5C36AFF544E 994 $a C0 $b LECLRInitiate Another SILO Locator Search