Coffee With Andre Dubus lll, Saturday, May 21, 10 AM, Georgetown PeabodyLibrary, Lincoln Park, Georgetown, MA
With the Friends of the Georgetown Peabody Library, North Shore and Newburyport Area Branches AAUW, we will welcome nationally recognized author and long time friend and supporter of AAUW, Andre Dubus lll to speak about his new book “TOWNIE” on Saturday, May 21, 10 AM at the Georgetown Peabody Library.
Refreshments will be served, including juices, coffee, tea, bagels, home
made muffins and coffee cakes. The cost of attending is twelve ($12.00)
dollars.
Reservations can be made by sending a check made out to AAUW, and mailed to
Judy Donovan (Tel. (978) 535-1544).
AAUW's share of the profit from the event is a grant to attend the National
Conference of College Women Student Leaders, which will be awarded to Deb
Woods, an individual member of AAUW from Beverly. Deb is a graduate student
at Boston University studying Women's Health Internationally. Deb has just
returned from Zululand, where she conducted research for her thesis.Deb is
Massachusetts Chair of CARE. Her registration fee of $395.00 and the
cost of her airplane flight will be awarded to her.
Publisher's Weekly has written the following review of Andre's book, "Townie". "Long before he became the highly acclaimed author of "House of Sand and Fog", Dubus shuffled and punched his way through a childhood and youth that was full of dysfunction, desperation, and determination. Just after he turned twelve, Dubus' 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.
For a few years, Dubus escaped into drugs, embracing the apathetic "no-way-out" attitude of his friends. After having his bike stolen, and being slapped around by some of the town's bullies, while 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.
Modeling himself on the Walking Tall sheriff, Buford Pusser, Dubus paid back acts of physical violence. Ultimately, he decided to take up his pen and write his way up from the bottom and into a new relationship with his father. In this gritty and gripping memoir, Dubus bares his soul in stunning and page-turning prose.
