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Ghost dogs : on killers and kin / Andre Dubus III.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : W. W. Norton, [2024]Copyright date: ©2024Description: 278 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1324000449
  • 9781324000440
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
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.
Summary: "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" -- Provided by publisher.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Dr. James Carlson Library Biography New DUBUS, A. D821 Checked out 05/31/2024 33111011120298
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library Biography New DUBUS, A. D821 Available 33111011327448
Adult Book Adult Book Northport Library Biography New DUBUS, A. D821 Checked out 05/23/2024 33111011154024
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

During childhood summers in Louisiana, Andre's grandfather taught him that men's work is hard. Ever after, 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, Andre worked-at being a better worker and a better human being. In his longest essay, "If I Owned a Gun," he reflects on the empowerment and shame he felt in keeping a gun, and his decision, ultimately, to give it up. Elsewhere, he writes of 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. In conversation with writers and thinkers 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 nonfiction.

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.

"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" -- Provided by publisher.

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