The Garden of Last Days: A Novel (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of The Garden of Last Days: A Novel Sunday, August 2 2009.

• From the author of the New York Times bestseller and Oprah's Book Club selection House of Sand and Fog --a new big-hearted, painful, page-turning novel. One early September night in Florida, a stripper brings her daughter to work. April's usual babysitter is in the hospital, so she decides it's best to have her three-year-old daughter close by, watching children's videos in the office, while she works. Except that April works at the Puma Club for Men. And tonight she has an unusual client, a foreigner both remote and too personal, and free with his money. Lots of it, all cash. His name is Bassam. Meanwhile, another man, AJ, has been thrown out of the club for holding hands with his favorite stripper, and he's drunk and angry and lonely. From these explosive elements comes a relentless, raw, searing, passionate, page-turning narrative, a big-hearted and painful novel about sex and parenthood and honor and masculinity. Set in the seamy underside of American life at the moment before the world changed, it juxtaposes lust for domination with hunger for connection, sexual violence with family love. It seizes the reader by the throat with the same psychological tension, depth, and realism that characterized Andre Dubus's #1 bestseller, House of Sand and Fog-- and an even greater sense of the dark and anguished places in the human heart.

Shelfari edited the contributors of The Garden of Last Days: A Novel Tuesday, July 21 2009.

• reordered the contributors.
• Removed a contributor: Andre (III) Dugus: (Primary Author)
• Removed a contributor: III Dubus: (Primary Author)
• Removed a contributor: Andre Dubus: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the contributors of The Garden of Last Days: A Novel Thursday, July 16 2009.

• Added a contributor: Andre Dubus: (Primary Author)
• Added a contributor: Andre (III) Dugus: (Primary Author)
• Added a contributor: Andre Dubus: (Primary Author)
• Added a contributor: III Dubus: (Primary Author)

Timothy Gray approved Madame Bibliophile’s request to combine 8 books, including The Garden of Last Days: A Novel, Tuesday, July 14 2009.

Madame Bibliophile submitted a request to combine 8 books, including The Garden of Last Days: A Novel, Monday, June 29 2009.