The Garden of Last Days, Andre Dubus III
The Garden of Last Days, Andre Dubus III
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The Garden of Last Days

Author: Andre Dubus III

Narrator: Dan John Miller

Unabridged: 13 hr 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 06/02/2008

Categories: Fiction

Synopsis

April’s usual babysitter, Jean, has had a panic attack that has landed her in the hospital. April doesn’t really know anyone else, 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. 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 listener by the throat with the same psychological tension, depth, and realism that characterized Andre Dubus’s bestselling House of Sand and Fog – and an even greater sense of the dark and anguished places in the human heart.

About Andre Dubus III

Andre Dubus III is the author of House of Sand and Fog (an Oprah’s Book Club selection and finalist for the National Book Award), Bluesman, and The Cage Keeper and Other Stories. He lives with his family north of Boston.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Snotchocheez on October 18, 2016

3.5 stars Scouring my beautiful but woefully understocked local library for anything recently published that I'd be interested in reading has led me (finally) to Andre Dubus III. Since I'd already seen the movie adaptation of House of Sand and Fog, I was much more intrigued by its only Dubus III shel......more

Goodreads review by Melissa on June 12, 2008

This book fits squarely into my category of a good idea poorly executed. The promise of the book lies in its gritty characters and the outward ripple into their lives from a point of chance intersection. And of course I was drawn by the clever concept of the chance intersection being taken from a fo......more

Goodreads review by Vonia on July 08, 2020

Good enough. But the weakest in Dubus's ouevre.......more

Goodreads review by Ray on October 05, 2024

Well, I read all the other GoodReads reviews and don't have much to add. There are lots of sharp insights below. In short, yes this was a book told from probably too many perspectives (I counted at least 9 distinct points of view), there was a bit of over-writing, and there is powerlessness/over-sex......more

Goodreads review by Randee on November 01, 2020

I bought this book in 2009. I know this because I found the receipt in the book. A receipt from Borders (how I miss you Borders.) I don't remember buying it so I don't know what drew me to it. All these years I thought it was about a Jewish family pre-Holocaust when things were getting dicey for Jew......more

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