Townie: A Memoir
Format: audiobook
ISBN:
9781441781574 (1441781579)
Publish date: February 28th 2011
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Minutes: 11
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Literature,
Book Club,
American,
Adult,
Coming Of Age,
Biography Memoir,
Social Issues,
Class
Now don't get me wrong this is not a bad book and I can see why there are so many 5 star reviews. It's a warts and all story about Andre Debus 111 and his somewhat chaotic, violent and erratic life from a skinny frightened youth to a violent drug induced teenager and finally an author and writer of ...
This is a rough book. It is about violence in all its forms, except war and genocide. Violence on a personal level. If swear words and rape and drugs are going to put you off, well then maybe this isn't a book for you. But read on. It is also about a dysfunctional family. I don't like dysfunctional ...
I have had the opportunity to read several memoirs by published authors in the last month or two..all have been excellent including this one. I can't help but want to wrap my arms around this author as a teenage boy. This book is absolutely heart-breaking to me.
Andre Dubus III’s memoir is a striking memoir of an impoverished and violent youth on the streets of Haverhill, Massachusetts. It’s pronounced HAYvrill, which I know from my having explored the streets of nearby Lowell as a child. My father grew up in that parallel Massachusetts mill town and what I...
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