Andre Dubus III: The Garden of Last Days: A Novel

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Rated 5 stars

“Excellent. I've never read a Dubus novel before, and as predicted by other critics, I did empathize with the characters--stripper, wife beater, militant fundamentalist Muslim, and bouncer with a learning disability. I'm grateful for a writer who can keep me turning pages as my emotions rock from frustration for characters' poor choices to grief for their background experiences that shaped their desires and will. How startling to recognize, not just how different, but how much I am like all...”

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“Hail, Dubus, defender of the downtrodden and the very stupid! While the quality of the writing is top-notch, the subplots themselves are not. The characters find themselves in fairly normal situations which are propelled into absurdity by their resulting knee-jerk reactions. The result comes across as forced, as drama expended for the sake of drama. And while the characters' reactions and impulses are certainly true to character, this itself is hardly a comfort. It only proves that the...”