He eventually went through many young women and three broken marriages. The elder Dubus sent money home and took the children out on Sundays, but otherwise remained out of touch. Meanwhile, at nearby Bradford College, his father taught, striding across campus in his neatly trimmed beard and Australian cowboy hats. At 16, he began training with weights and grew strong to fight his tormenters, and he became a vicious brawler in a leather jacket and ponytail. While his mother was at work, young toughs hung out at his house doing drugs. Weak and shy as he entered his teens, Dubus III lived with his mother and siblings in run-down houses in crime-ridden neighborhoods, where they ate canned food for dinner and considered occasional “mystery” car rides to nowhere special with their mother a big treat. Beautifully written and bursting with life, the book tells the story of a boy struggling to express his “hurt and rage,” first through violence aimed at school and barroom bullies and ultimately through the power of words. "A powerful, haunting memoir from acclaimed novelist Dubus III.The author grew up poor in Massachusetts mill towns, the oldest of four children of the celebrated short-story writer Andre Dubus (1936–1999), who abandoned the family in 1968 to purs ue a young student. In this gritty and gripping memoir, Dubus bares his soul in stunning and page-turning prose." Ultimately, he decided to take up his pen and write his way up from the bottom and into a new relationship with his father. Modeling himself on the Walking Tall sheriff, Buford Pusser, Dubus paid back acts of physical violence. After having his bike stolen, being slapped around by some of the town's bullies, and watching his brother and mother humiliated by some of the town's thugs, Dubus started lifting weights at home and boxing at the local gym. For a few years, Dubus escaped into drugs, embracing the apathetic "no-way-out" attitude of his friends. Just after he turned 12, Dubus's family fell rapidly into shambles after his father-the prominent writer Andre Dubus-not only left his wife for a younger woman but also left the family in distressing poverty on the violent and drug infested side of their Massachusetts mill town. "Long before he became the highly acclaimed author of Hou se of Sand and Fog, Dubus shuffled and punched his way through a childhood and youth full of dysfunction, desperation, and determination.
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