TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dubus,Andre
TI  - Ghost dogs: on killers and kin 
SN  - 1324000449
PY  - 2024///]
CY  - New York
PB  - W. W. Norton
KW  - Dubus, Andre,
KW  - Authors, American
KW  - Biography
KW  - Bounty hunters
KW  - Firearms
KW  - Drug dealers
KW  - Masculinity
KW  - Autobiographies
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Essays
N1  - 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
N2  - "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" --
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