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"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."

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"""Andre Dubus III’s idea of an essay is tantalizingly simple: tell something important that happened to him—suddenly having big money and not knowing quite how to cope with that, loving his long-divorced parents, growing up poor and outlasting it, not loving his dog as much as he worries he should. Here is human life often cloaked in transporting mystery. Dubus possesses a rare and empathetic brilliance."" -- Richard Ford ""Andre Dubus III is a literary treasure. These tender, elegant essays come to us directly from his battered heart, his noble soul, his powerful reckoning with the legacy of his childhood.? To read this book is to touch the pulsing core of what it is to be human."" -- Dani Shapiro, author of Signal Fires"

"""Dubus's idea of an essay is tantalizingly simple: tell something important that happened -- to him: suddenly having big money and not knowing quite how to cope with that; about loving his long-divorced parents; about growing up poor and outlasting it; about not loving his dog as much as he worries he should. Here is human life cloaked often in transporting mystery. Dubus possesses a rare and empathetic brilliance."" -- Richard Ford ""Andre Dubus III is a literary treasure. These tender, elegant essays come to us directly from his battered heart, his noble soul, his powerful reckoning with the legacy of his childhood.  To read this book is to touch the pulsing core of what it is to be human."" -- Dani Shapiro, author of Signal Fires"

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Andre Dubus III is the author of Such Kindness and eight other books, including the bestsellers Townie, a memoir; and House of Sand and Fog, a National Book Award Finalist in Fiction and an Oprah’s Book Club selection. He lives in Newburyport, Massachusetts.

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